.......This issue of IEEE Micro is a little bit different, to say the least. It includes four debates from the Computer Architecture Research Directions (CARD) workshop that was held as part of the 13th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture in February 2007. The organizers approached me about a special Micro issue about CARD and I said, ‘‘Why not?’’ W...

Selection for high productivity has been the long term focus of pig breeding programs worldwide, however, Rauw et al. (1998) highlighted that selection for productivity alone has unfavourable consequences for a number of metabolic, reproduction and health traits across species. More recently, Prunier et al. (2010) reviewed relationships between high physiological demands and the health and welf...

Mangrove is one of the most productive global forest ecosystems and unique in linking terrestrial marine environment. This study aims to clarify understand artificial intelligence (AI) adoption remote sensing mangrove forests. The performance machine learning algorithms such as random (RF), support vector (SVM), decision tree (DT), object-based nearest neighbors (NN) were used this automaticall...