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Rosalind W. Picard
This is an invited introduction to the first issue of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, telling personal stories and sharing viewpoints of a pioneer and visionary of the field of Affective Computing. This article is not intended to be a thorough or a historical account of the development of the field, for the author is not a historian and cannot begin to properly credit the extraordinary efforts of hundreds of people who helped to cultivate and expand the rich and fertile landscape that extends before us now.

R. Iris Bahar, Brown University Clifford Lau, Institute for Defense Analyses
Dan Hammerstrom, Portland State University Diana Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University
Justin Harlow, University of South Florida Alex Orailoglu, University of California, San Diego
William H. Joyner Jr., Semiconductor Research Corp. Massoud Pedram, University of Southern California

Although nanoelectronics won’t replace CMOS for some time, research is needed now to develop the architectures,methods, and tools to maximally leverage nanoscale devices and terascale capacity.Addressing the complementary architectural and system issues involved requires greater collaboration at all levels.The effective use of nanotechnology will call for total system solutions.

The growing proliferation of malware is raising doubts about the Internet’s future.Current
security measures primarily target inbound traffic,but service providers have no incentive
to stop attacks and spam at the source.A proposed certification scheme motivates
providers to control outgoing traffic,efficiently increasing overall security while preserving
the Internet’s open,decentralized structure.

Andy Hooper insists he’s not a utopian, but his vision of the future of computing shares some resemblances with the dreams of science-fiction writers. He foresees a not-too-distant time when the world’s sources of computing power are concentrated in remote server warehouses strategically located near the sources of renewable energy that power them, such as wind and solar farms. And the usage of the power sources could shift across the globe, depending on where energy is most abundant.