The NIH has just announced a Mobile Health Winter Institute — to be held in conjunction with the 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington, DC, in early December. Applications for the weeklong training opportunity — specifically geared toward early-career researchers, including computer scientists — are due later this month. Here’s the full announcement/call for applications: 2011 Mobile Health (mHealth) Winter Institute   Enhancing health through the use of mobile technologies   December 5-9, 2011, Washington, DC — in conjunction with the 2011 mHealth Summit

It’s not everyday the national news media envisions computing research. But it happened on Sunday, when New York Times‘ writer John Markoff penned a story about the future of computer architecture — picking up on a paper presented at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2011) earlier this year that forecast a 24-fold gap from the expectations of Moore’s Law by the year 2024 and concluded, “Regardless of chip organization and topology, multicore scaling is power limited to a degree not widely appreciated by the computing community.” Markoff writes: For decades, the power of computers has grown at a staggering rate as designers have managed to squeeze ever more and ever […]

The NSF’s Science Nation has a great feature today on the “Science of Shopping,” describing how computer scientists Rajeev Sharma and Satish Mummareddy have developed cameras and software that track our shopping behavior in brick-and-mortar stores, with the goal of showing retailers and manufacturers the best areas to place products within stores. Next time you go to a store, take a minute to look at all the things that are trying to grab your attention. With so many products available and so many stores and websites, how do you decide what to buy and where to shop? Whether it’s convenience, good service or finding the best deals, store owners want […]

A few months ago, we announced a call for short videos describing exciting research and results in computer science — with the goal of communicating to undergraduates what computing research is all about. The first of these videos, titled Exploring PhotoBios, debuted in mid-June. Today I’m pleased to present the second of these videos — about Seattle, a new testbed platform that allows researchers to access computational resources on a wide variety of devices and machines provided by everyday users. Users today are increasingly running applications on devices like cell phones and tablets. Similarly, companies are increasingly moving services to separately managed services like the cloud or content distribution networks (CDNs). However, […]