Can parallelization save the (computing) world?

Can Multithreaded Programming Save Massively Parallel Computing?

Massively parallel computing has taken a turn for the worse. MPP (massively parallel processor) companies have generally been doing poorly in the marketplace. The additional time to design and deliver MPP systems puts them a generation behind the latest small-scale microprocessor and SMP systems. Truly large machines have mean times to failure measured in days, limiting their ability to provide...

Can the polypill save the world from heart disease?

Can IS Save the World? Collaborative Technologies for Eco-Mobilisation

This paper adopts a transdisciplinary perspective to studying the use of collaborative technologies for environmental collaboration among diverse stakeholders, mobilised towards creating and achieving shared environmental goals. Environmental collaboration is a complex phenomenon involving a multitude of stakeholders and resources often dispersed across vast geographically, politically and cult...

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This article discusses the possibilities that a deeper engagement with the work of Gabriel Tarde opens for Actor-Network Theory (ANT). It argues that the combination of ANT’s methodological and analytical orientation and Tarde’s neo-monadology offers an appropriate framework for the study of new forms of political activism. Findings from an ethnographic research on the conflict surrounding the ...

Can Affective Computing Save Lives? Meet Mobile Health

More than a decade ago, my Imperial College colleague Robert Istepanian coined the term mHealth to represent mobile health sensing and advice. The decade before that, Rosalind Picard’s seminal book gave birth to affective computing. Both fields have since skyrocketed. Today, affective computing can enhance mHealth by, for example, encouraging mHealth technology adherence through emotionally int...