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IEEE Fellow Shares Computing’s Highest Honor
Edmund M. Clarke, IEEE Fellow and Harry M. Goode Memorial Award winner, together with E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis, have been named the winners of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award for their original and continuing research in a quality assurance process known as Model Checking. Widely considered the most prestigious award in computing, the Turing Award comes with a US$250,000 prize. The contributions made by the three researchers transformed the thinking in computer engineering from a theoretical technique to a highly effective verification technology that enables computer hardware and software engineers to find errors efficiently in complex system designs. This transformation has resulted in increased assurance that the systems perform as intended by designers. Clarke of Carnegie Mellon University, and Emerson of the University of Texas at Austin, working together, and Sifakis, working independently for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the University of Grenoble in France, developed the fully automated approach that is now the most widely used verification method in the hardware and software industries. Read more
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New Technology Makes Rewritable 3D Holograms Possible
A new, unique layer of material can record, erase and replace a holographic image within minutes. Researchers from the United States are so sure of this innovation, they predict the new technology will refresh pictures at video frame rates of up to 30 times a second. While today’s holographic disks are read-only, the proposed material could store “pages” of rewritable data in layers through the depth of the hologram. 3D holographic display that can be recorded in three minutes and viewed up to three hours without fading opens a variety of possibilities. Researchers are currently looking at bringing the displays to the home, providing dramatically higher-capacity computer memory, and improving medical imaging with rewritable 3D holograms. Read more
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Canada May Be Ideal Home for Cloud Computing
While cloud computing is an international trend, Canada may enjoy a global competitive advantage. According to Bill St. Arnaud, Senior Director of Advanced Networks for CANARIE, and there are mounting efforts to position the Canadian north as the ideal home for the emerging trend. Cloud computing refers to the practice of running applications, communicating and storing data not on personal computers, but via massive computer server farms located in remote locations and linked through high-speed networks. Critics of the trend argue that the benefits of cloud computing – greater computing efficiencies and the accessibility of data and applications from anywhere – are offset by the growing concerns over the enormous energy requirements to power and keep cool hundreds of thousands of computer servers. Locating the server farms in the Canadian north offers several environmental advantages. These include easy access to clean energy sources such as wind and geothermal energy and, given the colder climate, decreased energy requirements to cool the computer server farms. Read more
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Firms Competing to Speed Up Next Generation Memory Technology
Next generation memories, like FRAM, MRAM and PCM may replace today’s DRAM and flash memory technology. However, due to manufacturing problems, along with high costs and a lack of applications, a total transition is still yet to happen. Meanwhile, companies like Intel and ST have their PCM line, Freescale and NEC their MRM devices, and Texas Instruments its FRAM. Others companies, like SanDisk and Toshiba have created the first commercial three-bit-per-cell NAND flash memory, while NEC has developed MRAM and Toshiba rolled out the worlds fastest embedded DRAM. Read more
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Computer Society Launches Career Site for New Professionals
The new “Build Your Career” web site, recently launched by the IEEE Computer Society, helps young professionals chart out a course for managing their careers. The site has several kinds of content, ranging from news, feature articles and tutorial packages called TechSets, to material from Harvard Business School and advertisements for related services and products. Both technical and management topics are covered. Offered free of charge, individual articles are drawn from Computer Society archives and grouped under such headings as management, internet/web, and software development. Topics include how to make brainstorming more effective, understanding corporate hierarchies, appreciating the importance of software maintenance, and the coming of service-oriented architecture. Read more
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Pervasive Computing and Communications Conference
The 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2008) is being held 17-21 March 2008 in Hong Kong, China. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, the conference will provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers to present their latest research in the field of pervasive computing and communications. In addition to the technical papers, PerCom 2008 will also feature several workshops, a demonstrations session, keynote speakers and panel discussions. Learn more
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DARPA Hopes Dreams Become Reality
Numerous “out-of-the-box” programs were recently outlined by DARPA, the Defense Department’s advanced research agency, as part of its proposed 2009 budget. From brains-on-a-chip and robotic rescue choppers to see-through displays, the Pentagon’s innovative science division stretched the imagination with wildly futuristic projects within its US$3.29 billion budget. One of the most unusual is SyNAPSE or Systems of Neuormorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics, an electronic chip that mimics the human brain. Another project, called "Nightingale”, puts together the building blocks for a "fully autonomous" flyer that could some day serve as both an unmanned ambulance-in-the-sky and a robotic search-and-rescue chopper. Read more
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Grid Computing Gives Power to Fusion Studies
Things are quickly advancing in the world of fusion as grid computing empowers an all-new approach to studying plasma behavior with simulations that extrapolate the individual trajectories of tens of millions of plasma particles. Scientists have traditionally treated plasmas as fluids with very special properties, studying them using a magnetized version of the Navier-Stokes equation. This has meant the calculations that must be solved are usually non-linear and require massive computational power. Grid computing is now enabling another possible approach with the separate study of a large number of test plasma particles, whose behavior can then be extrapolated to the whole plasma. Millions of particles are typically required for this kind of calculation, and since each particle is independent, the computations can be distributed using grid computing techniques. The use of grid computing has also lead to a new set of collisional transport properties, like the lack of symmetries and the non-diffusive character of transport. Read more
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India Gets First JBoss Center of Excellence
IT consultants, developers, technicians and trainers in India will soon welcome the country’s first “professional open source” enterprise application center. InApp, a Technopark-based software services company, expects its JBoss Center of Excellence (JBoCE) to help develop local talent. Training local professionals in JBoss enterprise-class applications will create a pool of manpower that will further grow the enterprise middleware. JBoss application servers are not only cost effective, but also key to enterprise computing, especially large-scale applications. Equipped with unique features, JBoss contributes to faster application development, more maintainable code and high scalability. Read more
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Robots May Be the New Caretakers of Norwegian Elderly
Norway may have found a unique answer to its growing shortage of health care staffing for the elderly: robots. Wanting to live longer and more comfortably in their own homes, large numbers of baby boomers who will be retiring in the next 5-10 years may find this a timely solution. From doing housework and helping with personal care to giving critical daily tests, robots are up to the task. While the new technology is not intended to replace human care and tenderness, it will add a needed dimension. And though robots as caretakers may not yet be a reality, elderly Norwegians may find the prospect appealing. Read more
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AMD Drives Shift in Computer Software
According to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), developers need to rewrite today's computer software to pave the way for tomorrow's multi-core processors using a variety of different cores. The work, which involves a fundamental rethinking of the current software stack, should ease the job of programming heterogeneous computer microprocessors that will mix x86, graphics and other cores starting in 2009. AMD believes that by putting in place new levels of abstraction, the industry could let applications developers write parallel programs without needing to know the details of every multicore processor. A new computer stack could include an expanded set of run-time environments above the operating system that would help find, schedule, synchronize and manage chip-level resources for applications programmers. Read more
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