Computing Now: Peer-Review Rigor Meets Social Networks

T he IEEE Computer Society (CS) recently launched Computing Now (CN; http:// computingnow.computer.org), a single portal for all 14 CS magazines. CN features individual articles; themes based on editors’ top picks, such as gaming or agile development; editors’ blogs; news feeds; and multimedia content, such as interviews, podcasts, webinars, and videos. CN is updated more frequently than magazines are issued, and users with IEEE Web accounts can comment on the content. CN is an attempt to expose the traditional peer-reviewed content you can find in CS magazines to users in the more collaborative style of social networks and Web 2.0. Our hope is to build a Web site that merges all the tradition and rigor of peer reviewing with social networks’ scale and dynamics.