Welcome: Sustainability and Computing Special Section
Computing has a responsibility to become more environmentally sustainable.
Computing Applications
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Continuous Earth Observation of Forest Dynamics and Biodiversity
Efficient approaches to process Earth observation data require scalable computing power and the ability to deal with petabytes of data from distributed and heterogeneous sources.
The Emerging Face of Digital Dentistry
Digital technologies could expand treatments and the availability of dental services to undeserved communities.
Empowering Sustainability in the Energy Sector through AI
A new wave of AI technologies are leading to smart, responsive energy systems that will define our green future.
Advancements in Weather Prediction
The amount and quality of topographical, land use, land cover, coastline, and other data feeding forecasting models are leading to better predictions.
Energy-Optimized Supercomputer Networks Using Wind Energy
Harnessing the wind to improve the sustainability of energy-intensive computing.
It's critical to address AI's water footprint to ensure that it does not exacerbate global water stresses.
The Real, Significant Threat of Shadow AI
Unsanctioned AI tools are a growing risk for organizations, especially those in highly regulated industries where security, compliance, and data integrity are critical.
Claude 4’s Agency in Practice: Beyond Code Generation
My comparative testing revealed distinct approaches that suggest an "agency spectrum" for AI coding systems.
Smarter Prompts for a More Sustainable Future?
Companies should embed AI usage policies into their AI strategies.
Empowering Users to Make Sustainability-Forward Decisions for Computing Services
Exploring the intersection of sustainable computer systems and sustainable human-computer interaction.
Researchers Tap AI to Dig Into the Past
Experts are using AI to find archaeological sites, decipher ancient documents, and locate underwater World War II aircraft wrecks.
Homomorphic Technologies Could Process Still-Encrypted Data
Fully homomorphic encryption could stave off the security threats quantum computers pose to current encryption techniques.
Understanding the Environmental Impact of Generative AI Services
A methodology to assess the environmental impact of Stable Diffusion as an end-to-end service.
The Rise of the AI-Enabled Agentic Internet
Society is turning over major and minor decisions once made exclusively by humans to AI agents.
Formal computer science may never model practical computer engineering well enough to be predictive in the way the physical sciences are.
AI tools now support the entire software development lifecycle, from drafting to debugging.
Machine Learning Framework Integrates Geometry into Fast PDE Solving
DIMON works by solving a PDE over a template domain, then predicting new solutions on other domains that are diffeomorphic to the template.
GenDP: A Framework of Dynamic Programming Acceleration for Genome Sequencing Analysis
The proposed GenDP framework of dynamic programming acceleration for genome sequencing analysis supports multiple DP kernels.
Technical Perspective: Toward a Generalized Accelerator for Genome Sequence Analysis
GenDP offers an important step toward addressing the need for a universal accelerator.
Envisioning Recommendations on an LLM-Based Agent Platform
The Rec4Agentverse paradigm for LLM-based agent platforms brings significant changes to recommender systems in areas such as user preference modeling and collaboration mechanisms.
‘What I Think about When I Type about Talking’: Reflections on Text-Entry Acceleration Interfaces
The GenieTalk system was designed to address physical and cognitive barriers in sentence prediction and phrase retrieval systems.
You Can Get There From Here (But It Really Makes a Mess of Things)
Technology isn't helping navigation apps address the problem of rerouting heavy traffic from highways to local roads.
Technologies dealing with death and bereavement are appearing even as legal questions about using and controling a dead person's likeness remain unresolved.
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