DEPARTMENT: Inbox

Inbox

By XRDS Staff

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Tags: Document types, General and reference

COLUMN: INIT

Every bit has a cost

By Jon Froehlich

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Tags: Computing / technology policy, Physical sciences and engineering, Social and professional topics

DEPARTMENT: Benefit

Email services at ACM

By Daniel Gooch

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Tags: Computing organizations

COLUMN: Advice

Tips for going green

By Ben Deverett

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Tags: Microcomputers

DEPARTMENT: Updates

What a wonderful world
ACM student chapters around the globe

By Vaggelis Giannikas

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Tags: Computer science education, Document types, Information science education

SECTION: Features

Sustainable data centers

How Google addresses energy and environment issues as they pertain to its global data centers.

By Bill Weihl, Erik Teetzel, Jimmy Clidaras, Chris Malone, Joe Kava, Michael Ryan

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Tags: Application servers, Application specific processors, Client-server architectures, Database web servers, File systems management, Implementation management, Other architectures, Reconfigurable logic and FPGAs, Record storage systems, Sorting and searching

Sustainable sensing for a smarter planet

At what scale is indoor solar harvesting the better primary power source?

By Prabal Dutta

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Tags: Communication hardware, interfaces and storage, Network architectures, Network services

Sourcemap

Industry and consumers need tools to help make decisions that are good for communities and for the environment.

By Leo Bonanni

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Tags: Collaborative and social computing, Collaborative and social computing systems and tools, Development frameworks and environments, World Wide Web

GrowFood.org

New social media is helping connect students to apprenticeships in the practice of organic farming.

By Ethan Schaffer

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Tags: Collaborative and social computing systems and tools, Social and professional topics, World Wide Web

Let's split!

Going sustainable by dividing personal transportation into two categories.

By Dan Sturges

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Tags: Communication hardware, interfaces and storage, Computing / technology policy, Social and professional topics

The networked vehicle 1.0

The electric car revolution is back in gear and ready to plug into the mass market.

By Steven Letendre, Willet Kempton, Jasna Tomić

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Tags: Computers in other domains, Network architectures, Social and professional topics

In the dark, out in the cold

For 30% of the population, lack of access to home-energy monitoring devices translates into a lack of power---in more ways than one.

By Tawanna Dillahunt, Jennifer Mankoff

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Tags: Collaborative and social computing systems and tools, Human computer interaction (HCI), World Wide Web

Challenges in sustainable human-home interaction

Building eco-friendly homes with occupant intelligence as the foundation.

By Johnny Rodgers, Lyn Bartram, Rob Woodbury

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Tags: Collaborative and social computing systems and tools, Human computer interaction (HCI), World Wide Web

OPOWER

Energy efficiency through behavioral science and technology.

By Alex Laskey, Ogi Kavazovic

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Tags: Collaborative and social computing systems and tools, Multimedia information systems, Social and professional topics, World Wide Web

Dialogical encounters

Translating ecological data into arresting images and sound require an artist's touch.

By Tiffany Holmes

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Tags: Collaborative and social computing, Multimedia information systems

DEPARTMENT: Hello world

Web maps of renewable energy

By Dmitry Batenkov

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Tags: Development frameworks and environments, Information systems applications

DEPARTMENT: Labz

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California

By Gideon Juve

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Tags: Computer science education, Computing occupations, Information science education

DEPARTMENT: Back

Green technology

By James Stanier

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Tags: Computing / technology policy, Social and professional topics

COLUMN: Profile

Profile Rob Bernard
Microsoft's green commitment

By Robert J. Simmons

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Tags: Computing and business, Computing occupations, Management of computing and information systems