The memory system is a fundamental performance and energy bottleneck in almost all computing systems. Recent system design, application, and technology trends that require more capacity, bandwidth, efficiency, and predictability out of the memory system make it an even more important system bottleneck. At the same time, DRAM technology is experiencing difficult technology scaling challenges tha...

The past 15 years have seen the rise of the Cloud, along with rapid increase in Internet backbone traffic and more sophisticated cellular core networks. There are three different types of “Clouds:” (1) data center, (2) backbone IP network and (3) cellular core network, responsible for computation, storage, communication and network management. Now the functions of these three types of Clouds ar...

Conducting field research in the developing world is, under any circumstances, a complex affair, and the study of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in this context adds yet another series of special challenges. Nevertheless, telecenter research offers tremendous opportunity to understand the role of communication and information in development. More importantly, a participatory ...

In this article, we use our experiences to provide tips for contacting potential supervisors, what to expect from them and how to approach them for research opportunities. With appropriate planning, you will be surprised by the number of prestigious academics who would be willing for you to join their research group, and to get you involved in a research project.

Ultrawide-bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors, with bandgaps significantly wider than the 3.4 eV of GaN, represent an exciting and challenging new area of research in semiconductor materials, physics, devices and applications. Because many figures-ofmerit for device performance scale nonlinearly with bandgap, these semiconductors have long been known to have potential compelling advantages over their...

Recon gurable computing involves adapting hardware resources to the speci c needs of applications in order to obtain performance bene ts This emerging architectural paradigm holds some promise for delivering signi cant speedups to compute bound applications However many challenges need to be overcome before recon gurable computing becomes mainstream Signi cantly supporting applications design a...

In this paper, we provide a review of the benefits of employing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signal processing techniques in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). These benefits include increasing the range of communication via beamforming, improving the reliability of communication via spatial diversity, increasing the throughput of the network via spatial multiplexing, and managing mul...

Please direct correspondence to either author. The authors would like to extend thanks to the editors (Joe Cote, John Murray) and the reviewers for their helpful comments. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Family as a consuming and decision making unit is a central phenomenon in marketing and consumer behavior. However, in the recent past, there has been a decline in interest in family as a unit of analysis. Y...