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The three papers in this special section were presented at the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) that was held in San Francisco, CA, 18-20 February 2011. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Symposium on Foundations in Software Engineering is an annual conference sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery, a computer portal and dedicated to the presentation of innovative research results contributing to an engineering discipline for software systems. This special section of the July 1998 issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering features three of the best papers from the fourth symposium, held in October 1996 in San Francisco, California. During its first half-decade, research results presented at this conference have covered engineering research topics. However, a number of distinguishing properties tend to characterize the best of the papers and have helped set the standards for high-quality software engineering research. The three papers in this special section illustrate these properties. One of the critical challenges for software engineering research is to find practical tools that help system builder restructure existing systems. Mark Moriconi was general chair for the symposium and deserves considerable credit for its success.

This year, the 15th International Symposium on Wearable Computers was held in San Francisco, California. ISWC is the premier conference in wearable computing and promises to be a window into the future of computing. The technical program emphasized wearable context and activity recognition, research using cell phones, challenges of human-computer interaction using wearables, novel sensing modalities, electronic textiles, and wearable applications. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On 12 June 2011, the first International Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) was held in conjunction with the International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2011) in San Francisco. The workshop aimed to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss and explore the research challenges and opportunities in applying the pervasive computing paradigm to urban spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article provides information on the joint IEEE Conference on E-commerce Technology (CEC '06) and Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-commerce and E-computing (EEE '06) to be held on June 26-29, 2006, in San Francisco, California. The event will provide a platform for researchers interested in the theory and practice of e-commerce and enterprise computing. It will focus on new technologies and methods for business process innovation. The joint programs of the two conferences will comprise tutorials, invited lectures, paper presentations, and panel discussions.

EIC Fei-Yeu Wang gives a brief report of the IEEE Intelligent Systems editorial board meeting held in conjunction with the 25th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11) in San Francisco, California, in August 2011. He also highlights changes to the editorial board and magazine content, including two new departments on health and sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on the implementation of a ubiquitous computing system in the Exploratorium, an interactive science museum in San Francisco, California. Challenges posed by the physical environment of the museum; Basic functionalities in the deployment of nomadic computing technologies; Deployment and testing of a prototype electronic guidebook.

Discusses an architecture for digital teaching of radiology developed by a team of researchers from the University of California in San Francisco. Conversion of x-ray films into digital format for processing; Classification of radiological images used for diagnosis and treatment planning process; Integration of primary modalities and clinical databases into digital radiology.

Presents news briefs related to Internet computing as of June 2005. Information on new approval and classification systems adopted by the Open Source Initiative board for open-source licenses at its April 205 meeting in San Francisco, California; Recipients of the 14th annual Pioneer Awards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Background on new top-level domains approved by the International Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers at its April 2005 meeting in Argentina.

Reports on the proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Power Modulator Conference (IEEE-IPMC) held at Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco, California from May 23 to 26, 2004. Organizers of the bi-annual conference of IEEE-IPMC; Plenary sessions of the technical program; Sponsorship of three professional and two student awards.

I am writing this column just after the IEEE/Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ) International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), which was held 25–30 September in San Francisco. IROS 2011 is financially cosponsored by four organizations: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), RSJ, and Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]