Professor Chao-Sung Lai serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief in charge of Highlights Section. One article is featured at Section, entitled “The Future Learning, Jobs, and Research.” It written by Prof. Kiat Seng Yeo (IEEE Fellow, Member Singapore National Academy Engineering, Science), who also Provost University Technology Design.

Temperature sensing is essential for the survival of living cells. The membrane-bound thermosensor DesK from Bacillus subtilis is a key representative of histidine kinases receptors able to remodel membrane lipid composition when the temperature drops below ~30°C. Although the receptor is well studied, a central issue remains: how does the compositional and functional diversity of the surroundi...

T he face of personal computing with its desktop metaphor has remained largely unchanged since the release of the Xerox Star in 1979. We created a system called the Escritoire to explore the issues in making and using a display that is much more like a real desk—the every day workspace that people use. Our system differs from the conventional interface in a number of ways: it provides much more...

In this paper, we introduce a fast and robust method for tracking positions of the centers and the ngertips of both right and left hands. Our method makes use of infrared camera images for reliable detection of user's hands, and uses template matching strategy for nding ngertips. This method is an essential part of our augmented desk interface in which a user can, with natural hand gestures, si...