Our goal as education researchers is to make a difference. We want to help students learn better, or perhaps we want them to learn just as well but at lower cost to our institutions. Decades of research tell us that it is difficult to make a significant difference with technology. This is especially true if we are trying to do the same things. The true value of new technology comes when it perm...

Cyber physical systems CPSs embodies the conception as well as the implementation of the integration of the state-of-art technologies in sensing, communication, computing, and control. Such systems incorporate new trends such as cloud computing, mobile computing, mobile sensing, new modes of communications, wearables, etc. In this article we give an exposition of the architecture of a typical C...

It is quite an honor to be asked to become the third editor-in-chief of Physical Biology . I am following in the footsteps of Tim Newman, who served with energy and enthusiasm. Hopefully, the entire community fully appreciates his contributions to moving the field forward. Thank you, Tim! With the honor, however, goes a clear responsibility. Our journal has survived its birth pangs and emerged ...

In the past decade, we have witnessed an unparalleled success of information and communication technologies (ICT), which is expected to be even more proliferating and ubiquitous in the future. Among many ICT applications, ICT components embedded into various devices and systems have become a critical one. In fact, embedded systems with communication capability span virtually every aspect of our...