Guest Editors' Introduction-Mobile Computing: When Mobility Meets Computation

Guest Editors' Introduction: Energy Harvesting and Conservation

P ervasive computing aims to integrate computation into our daily work practice to enhance our activities without being noticed. In other words, computing becomes truly invisible. Yet at the heart of every pervasive computing system are electronic components that consume energy. Managing the energy needs of mobile systems, or systems for which reliable power isn’t guaranteed, can be a significa...

Mobile Agents - The Right Vehicle for Distributed Sequential Computing

Distributed sequential computing (DSC) is computing with distributed data using a single locus of computation. In this paper we argue that computation mobility—the ability for the locus of computation to migrate across distributed memories and continue the computation as it meets the required data—facilitated by mobile agents with strong mobility is essential for scalable distributed sequential...

Guest Editors’ Preface Special Issue on Reversible Computing

Guest Editors' Introduction: The Smart Phone--A First Platform for Pervasive Computing

O ne way in which the vision of ubiquitous computing has become a reality is in the ubiquity of mobile phones. Over a billion mobile phones exist today, a third of which are in China. In many Asian countries, more mobile phones are used than domestic landlines; in Singapore, mobile phones outnumber citizens.1 Mobile phones are thus a nearconstant companion of a significant percentage of the wor...

Hot Chips: The Annual Feast of Riches

......Welcome to the March/April issue of IEEE Micro, which is devoted to a set of articles summarizing some of the best presentations at the latest Hot Chips symposium. The Hot Chips special issue has been a tradition for several decades now and is an excellent opportunity to report on some of the cuttingedge microprocessor designs and projects in industry, research labs, and academia. Hot Chi...