Over the past decade, Computer has published numerous articles on NASA’s pioneering efforts in robotics, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. In honor of the celebration of its 50 years of achievement, in this issue we have assembled articles describing some of NASA’s contributions to the field of computer science. Other articles in this issue describe efforts to extend Amdahl’s law to account for power scalability’s implications in the coming many-core era and detail the development of a model that uses genetic algorithms to optimize the assignment of private transport within a city area.

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Features January 2009 President's Message A Leadership Challenge in 2009 Susan K. (Kathy) Land, CSDP The IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors remains focused on continuing the transformation of the Society so that we can provide increasing value to our membership. January 2009 Cover Feature The Changing Paradigm of Data-Intensive Computing Richard T. Kouzes, Gordon A. Anderson, Stephen T. Elbert, Ian Gorton, and Deborah K. Gracio Through the development of new classes of software, algorithms, and hardware, data-intensive applications provide timely and meaningful analytical results in response to exponentially growing data complexity and associated analysis requirements.

News January 2009 News Briefs Linda Dailey Paulson Topics covered include a new flexible, easily programmable supercomputer; an API that helps developers build applications for multicore chips; a private wireless-spectrum marketplace; and an intelligent pill that comes with its own microprocessor. January 2009 Technology News Neal Leavitt Even though the technology faces several significant challenges, many vendors and industry observers predict a bright future for cloud computing.

Web Technologies January 2009 Web 3.0 Emerging Jim Hendler While Web 3.0 technologies are difficult to define precisely, the outline of emerging applications has become clear over the past year.

The Profession January 2009 The Credit Crunch and the Digital Bite Neville Holmes Use of digital technology caused the present financial turmoil.

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