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Electronic Paper’s Next Chapter

The technological challenge for researchers working on the next generation of electronic paper is to render color as brightly as traditional paper, without increasing power requirements or end-user costs.
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Cray and Fernbach Award Winners

This year, I have the honor and privilege to chair the selection committee for the Seymour Cray and Sidney Fernbach awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to high-performance computing, in honor of two early leaders of our field
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Moving Beyond Text-Based Video Search

Current disputes on the appropriate format for conducting searches of online video threaten to dredge up old battles on the superiority of linear, textual styles of presentation versus visual-spatial representations. The conflict centers on whether the underlying qualitative meaning of a video is best captured through text or whether tools developed for the analysis of static visual features are portable to a video environment.
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Time and Computing

Edward E. Lee's "Computing Needs Time" (May 2009) might be the most important, stimulating, and timely article I have read in Communications over the past 50 years.
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Dealing with the Venture Capital Crisis

The venture capital industry, like financial services in general, has fallen on hard times. Part of the problem is that large payoffs have become increasingly scarce. But perhaps the biggest future challenge for VC firms will be geography. What really might jump-start the industry is more creative globalization, with an eye toward using some overseas markets as "natural incubators."
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Computing in the Depression Era

Since its beginning, the computer industry has been through several major recessions, each occurring  approximately five years after the establishment of a new computing paradigm. These new computing modes created massive opportunities that the entrepreneurial economy rapidly supplied and then oversupplied.
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Reflections on Conficker

Conficker's alarming growth rate in early 2009 along with the apparent mystery surrounding its ultimate purpose had raised concern among whitehat security researchers. Here is an insider's view of the analysis and implications of the Conficker conundrum.

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