Audits

‘Its body looked like a warzone.’ Air pollution could kill off critical honey bees in India August 10, 2020
Study is first to detail impacts of dirty air on insect health
AI invents new ‘recipes’ for potential COVID-19 drugs August 7, 2020
Discovery could bolster global supplies of drugs
Fossil captures ancient ‘hell ant’ in action August 6, 2020
The prehistoric insect used “scythelike” mouthparts to clamp down on prey
The secret to this fruit’s mysterious blue color August 6, 2020
The metallic blue shade has an unusual origin
Humans have altered North America’s ecosystems more than melting glaciers August 5, 2020
Fossilized pollen reveals powerful impact of agriculture and other land use changes
Illegal deforestation in Brazil soars amid climate of impunity August 5, 2020
Satellite data suggest Amazon clearings increased by at least 28% in the past year
Once praised for taming the pandemic, Asian-Pacific nations worry about new onslaught August 4, 2020
Early successes led to complacency, premature lifting of control measures, and social distancing fatigue
‘Time camera’ generates 3D images from echoes of light August 4, 2020
System relies on artificial intelligence to turn noise in to a signal
Designer antibodies could battle COVID-19 before vaccines arrive August 4, 2020
Now in clinical trials, monoclonal antibodies promise to both prevent and treat disease
Why pregnant women face special risks from COVID-19 August 4, 2020
Biology explains why “the first ones who need the masks are pregnant women”

Sonification of Surface Tapping Changes Behavior, Surface Perception, and Emotion May 13, 2015
Interactive sonification techniques can be applied to the audio feedback from touching and interacting with both real and virtual surfaces, and the different audio feedback can affect a user's emotional, behavioral, and perceptual experience with the surface. More
A Little Ingenuity Solves an Elephant-Sized Problem May 13, 2015
A student team from North Carolina State has designed a collar to help control wild elephants that threaten human property and life in Africa and Asia. More
Thinking Backward with Professor Zermelo May 13, 2015
This column discusses extensive form games and shows how backward induction can be used to analyze such games. More
Never Mind Pearl Harbor--What about a Cyber Love Canal? May 13, 2015
Focusing on malicious attacks on the current infrastructure might be distracting us from another looming challenge: the risk to emerging infrastructure due to carelessness. More
Accelerating Application Start-up with Nonvolatile Memory in Android Systems May 13, 2015
In the critical race to minimize application launch time, this article looks at possible hardware solutions, especially the proven benefits of using nonvolatile memory. More
Security and Privacy Implications of Pervasive Memory Augmentation May 13, 2015
Pervasive technology can support human memory augmentation, but there are privacy and security implications that need to be addressed and understood moving forward. More
Titan Takes on the Universe: Large-Scale Cosmology Simulation of Universe Mines for Halos Where Galaxies are Born May 13, 2015
This article takes a closer look at a recent Titan run and the team that's currently pushing the state of the art in precision cosmology with the goal of better understanding cosmic acceleration. More
Cloud Standards News and Updates May 13, 2015
This column covers recent news on standards-related activities, including products of standards-developing organizations and other recent developments. More
Big Data and IT-Enabled Services: Ecosystem and Coevolution May 13, 2015
Take a look at Big Data's evolution and application as a service-oriented resource and the disruptive IT-enabled innovation it creates. More
Visual Computing as a Key Enabling Technology for Industrie 4.0 and Industrial Internet May 13, 2015
Visual computing plays an intrinsic role for Industrie 4.0 both at present and in various scenarios for future research. More
Chinese Overview of A Deadline-Floor Inheritance Protocol for EDF Scheduled Embedded Real-Time Systems with Resource Sharing May 13, 2015
Presented by Weiqiang Liu, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers, this video provides a Chinese overview of the May 2015 Spotlight Article. The paper discusses Earliest Deadline First (EDF), the most widely studied optimal dynamic scheduling algorithm for uniprocessor real-time systems. More
From the Internet of Things to the Internet of People May 13, 2015
A reference architecture integrates people with the Internet of Things via smartphones to create scenarios that support the evolution of the Internet of People. More
Augmentative, Alternative, and Assistive: Reimagining the History of Mobile Computing and Disability May 13, 2015
Electronic communication support tools for nonspeaking people and mobile computing have always been closely connected, each providing requirements and inspiration to drive advancement. More
Continuous Delivery: Huge Benefits, but Challenges Too May 13, 2015
Paddy Power began implementing continuous delivery (CD) two years ago, reaping both huge benefits and challenges that can inform practitioners also considering CD. More
Teaching Privacy: Multimedia Making a Difference April 9, 2015
The Teaching Privacy project brings researchers and teachers together to develop learning tools to teach children about online privacy, especially in their interaction with multimedia technology. More
Societal Discussion Required? Ubicomp Products beyond Weiser's Vision April 9, 2015
As a community, we need to be more aware of the impact and inspiration our research creates. At the same time, these new computing technologies often require open discussions on what we can and should do. More
Understanding Cybercrime from Its Stakeholders' Perspectives: Part 1--Attackers April 9, 2015
Although cybercrime is rampant, there is no authoritative definition of the term and all that it implies. A comprehensive model and taxonomy of cybercrime, including all of its stakeholders, would contribute to better cybersecurity. Part one of this two-part series explores attackers and their motives in detail. More
The Role of the CPU in Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Browsing April 9, 2015
In an area that has primarily focused on performance, this article turns our attention to energy efficiency in mobile Web browsing, which requires a close look at how the network and CPU interact. More
Securing Health Information April 9, 2015
With such widespread adoption of the use of electronic health records, this article addresses the job of securing those records in a world where data access is increasingly mobile. More
What Got Done in One Year at NSF's Stampede Supercomputer April 9, 2015
Aaron Dubrow describes the National Science Foundation's Stampede supercomputer and how scientists are using it to tackle seven important research topics. More