The Past, Present, and Future of Storage Technologies (Part 1 of 2)

This article traces the evolution of SSD (solid-state drive) interfaces, examining the transition from the block storage paradigm inherited from hard disk drives to SSD-specific standards customized to flash memory. Early SSDs conformed to the block ...

A smart home is an application of ubiquitous computing in which the home environment is monitored by ambient intelligence to provide context-aware services and facilitate remote home control. This paper presents an overview of previous smart home ...

Computer science has had a fascinating history, dating back to the mid-19th century. Its most dramatic progress, of course, has been over the past two decades or so. Hardware development has been phenomenal during this latter period. We have now reached ...