Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been demonstrated to be a necessary cause of invasive cervical cancer across epidemiologic and virologic studies worldwide (1). However, the biologic mechanisms for malignant transformation by HPV were well established long before the epidemiologic studies showed any consistency among investigators or across study designs. Once sensitive biologic assays became ava...

Endoscopic imaging is in part responsible for the recent drop in deaths from gastrointestinal cancers and also for detecting pre-cancerous and non-cancerous conditions and allowing them to be treated effectively, although techniques are far from perfect. Endoscopic imaging has evolved considerably from fiber optic systems 50 years ago to high resolution and high definition systems used at prese...

Due to the quick increase in number of mobile, ubiquitous, cloud, network and communication applications and studies, many computer and communication systems, wired or wireless, have been released to service their customers (human users or other systems). However, hackers everywhere around the world may attack these systems for some reasons, e.g., stealing one company’s business secrets for ano...

e s o P s m p a o p d a a o The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) Technology Committee provides reviews of emerging endoscopic technologies that have the potential to affect the practice of GI endoscopy. Evidence-based methodology is used, with MEDLINE and PubMed literature searches to identify pertinent clinical studies on the topic. Because many topics have a limited numb...

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Wireless network survivability is an issue of great concern to current telecommunication industry. Since loss of service in wireless network, for example cellular system, due to disaster and catastrophic failures could be devastating and result in significant revenue or even lives loss. This becomes apparent during the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Septemb...

In this essay, a new approach for the ethical study of emerging technology ethics will be presented, called anticipatory technology ethics (ATE). The ethics of emerging technology is the study of ethical issues at the R&D and introduction stage of technology development through anticipation of possible future devices, applications, and social consequences. I will argue that a major problem for ...

The world of Virtual Environments and Immersive Technologies (Sutherland, 1965) (Kalawsky, 1993) are evolving quite rapidly. As the range and complexity of applications increases, so does the requirement for intelligent interaction. The now relatively simple environments of the OZ project (Bates, Loyall & Reilly, 1992) have been superseded by Virtual Theatres (Doyle & Hayes-Roth, 1997) (Giannac...

It is my great pleasure to write this first annual article showcasing the Emerging Technologies Committee (ETC) within ComSoc. The ETC was formed in 2006 to identify and promote new technology directions in the broad field of communications and related areas. Indeed, as communications becomes more interdisciplinary and its applications more diverse, the ETC's goal is to bring these cutting edge...

The emergence and popularity of 2G and 3G cellular networks as well as the high market penetration of mobile devices have created strong demands for introducing new applications in the area of mobile commerce (MCommerce). M-Commerce deals with selling goods, services, and content, including related functions like advertising and payment transactions, over a cellular network, and hence follows s...