The breathtaking pace of current developments in computer science brings many challenges to educators. One is to sustain students’ interest as they wrestle with the often difficult theory underpinning the scientific and engineering methodologies which will be essential if they are to become effective professionals. Another is to provide a setting in which students can learn to integrate the eve...

In our modern clock-ruled culture, it is not too much to say that no society can exist unless based on “time”. Computers, which are the key device of an information society, are equipped with high precision clocks to synchronize their entire circuit function. In an electronic environment or digital society built on computers, recordkeeping relates inevitably to the time that is ticked away by t...

The Homebrew Computer Club was a hobbyist group in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to helping people build their own home personal computers. I analyze their writings between 1975 and 1977, in order to understand how their values became embedded in the technology they built, establishing how the personal computer should be used and thought of. These values were based in ideals of open info...

• Bella Bollobas (University of Memphis, Mathematics) • Alex Aiken, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (UC Berkeley, EECS) • Ruzena Bajcsy (UC Berkeley, EECS) • Gautam Biswas (Vanderbilt, Computer Sciences) • David Culler (UC Berkeley, EECS) • Kenneth Frampton (Vanderbilt, Mechanical Engineering) • Karl Hedrick, (UC Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering) • Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt, Electri...

Published by the IEEE Computer Society 0018-9162/09/$25.00 © 2009 IEEE with a pacemaker, the odds that the device’s manufacturer will recall it or issue a defect warning over a one-year period are about one in 15. For implantable cardioverter defibrillators—more sophisticated devices that can deliver a strong electric shock to avert sudden death—the odds of a warning are even higher: nearly one...

The pervasiveness of modern day embedded systems has led to the storing of huge amount of sensitive information in them. These embedded devices often have to operate under insecure environments and are hence susceptible to software and physical attacks. Thus, security has been and will remain one of the prime concerns in the embedded systems. Although a lot of hardware and software techniques h...

Computer science in general, and embedded system development in specific, is experiencing a fast change in technology paradigms. Educators have to decide which of the current topics last long enough to be fundamental and thus, worth teaching. Based on normative and empirical data, this paper discusses which didactic criteria are needed to identify fundamentals of a discipline. The authors are f...

A MIDI-to-OSC converter is implemented on a commercially available embedded linux system, tighly integrated with a microcontroller. A layered method is developed which permits the conversion of serial data such as MIDI to OSC formatted network packets with an overall system latency below 5 milliseconds for common MIDI messages. The Gumstix embedded computer provide an interesting and modular pl...

Increase of future appliances at home environment causes confusion with less computer-skilled users. Consequently, embedded-hardware could prevent us from recognizing all of them by ourselves. Furthermore, wireless connection among embedded devices also makes users not have a clear grasp of which kind of application is running among them. This kind of user’s unawareness should make the speed of...

This paper addresses the issue of educating software engineers in embedded systems development. With the rapidly growing markets of embedded devices and their interconnections due to the ubiquitous presence of the Internet, leading to the emergence of cyberphysical systems, educating software engineers and computer scientists on these subjects at the college level is becoming essential. The pap...