Editorial V.13, N1, 2015

Editorial: NAR Awards 2015

Microsoft Word - STT-v13

STT-MTJ is a promising device for future highdensity and low-power integrated systems. To enable design exploration of STT-MTJ, this paper presents a fully compact model for efficient SPICE simulation. Derived from the fundamental LLG equation, the new model consists of RC elements that are closed-form solutions of device geometry and material properties. They support transient SPICE simulation...

2015 SWAT4LS International Conference Editorial

SWAT4LS 2015 had two excellent keynotes. The first was from Bijan Parsia, of the University of Manchester, on "Representing all clinical knowledge" and the second was from Melissa Haendel, of Oregon Health and Science University, and was about "Envisioning a world where everyone helps solve disease". The conference programme, together with slides, is available on the SWAT4LS 2015 conference Web...

Editorial: Service Computing in 2015

AS we enter 2015, I have some very exciting news. First, with IEEE CS Publication Board approval, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (TSC) will become a bi-monthly journal and publish every two months and six issues annually, instead the current quarterly publications. Second, in response to the growing community of researchers and practitioners, including both authors and readers, TSC edit...

Editorial: Alfred Pingoud (1945–2015)

Dr Pingoud was born on 31 August 1945, as the son of a businessman and a teacher in Schwaan (Mecklenburg, Germany). After completing high school in Langen (Hessen, Germany), he studied Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen and at Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating in 1969 with a thesis describing ‘Studies on the aldehydeoxidase’ with Prof Ernst Bayer at the Institute of Organic C...