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New print and online journals from assoc. for computing machinery.


The Association for computing (body) Association for Computing - (ACM, before 1997 - "Association for Computing Machinery") The largest and oldest international scientific and educational computer society in the industry. Founded in 1947, only a year after the unveiling of ENIAC, ACM was established by mathematicians and electrical engineers to advance the science and application of Information Technology. John Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC, was one of ACM's founders. Machinery (New York) has started the production of three new titles, including two in print and one online.

Launched in July, Transactions on Applied Perception is a new quarterly journal whose purpose is to further the development of research in the Interaction between perception and computer science disciplines such as graphics, vision, acoustics, multimodal rendering, sensory integration sensory integration
n.
The coordinated organization and processing of input from somatic sense receptors by the central nervous system.
 and haptics haptics /hapĀ·tics/ (-tiks) the study of the sense of touch.

hapĀ·tics (hpt
. The first issue includes articles on creating composites, new human-computer interaction (software, hardware) Human-Computer Interaction - (HCI) The study of how humans interact with computers, and how to design computer systems that are easy, quick and productive for humans to use.

See also Human-Computer Interface.

HCI Sites.
 techniques and using motion in an interface.

Also to be published quarterly, Transactions on Sensor Networks publishes results in the research and applications of distributed, wireless or wireline sensor and actuator networks. Editorial includes information on the application of sensor networks, data storage, energy and resource management, fault tolerance and diagnostics, mobile systems, security, system architectures and simulation tools.

ACM Computers in Entertainment is a quarterly online magazine that carries research papers and articles about online games, CD-ROM software, CGI movies, interactive TV, virtual reality, animatronics, and related entertainment technologies. Initial issues focus on the theme "Educating Children through Entertainment" and include information on education and computer games, theories and applications, as well as interviews with industry executives. An annual compilation of issues will be available on a digital video disc as part of the annual $40 subscription.
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Date:Sep 30, 2004
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