Science

A feature article about modern applications of speech recognition, in particular how they've combined with complementary technologies to produce such consumer products as Siri.

A very brief article about a U.S. Government report on whether high-performance computing is cost-effective using cloud-computing techniques.

A news report on the Privacy Identity Innovation conference in Menlo Park, November 2011, which focused largely on how social media are changing the landscape for consumers.

A review of Asia's recent ascendency in the Top500 list of the world's leading supercomputers, and the supercomputing field generally.

Article about advances in electronic displays that can bend, be made in irregular shapes, and be produced through a print-like process.

Article about "claytronics" -- ensembles of tiny robots that self-assemble into larger functional units.

Short, online-only news article about brain-machine interfaces -- or, as I call it, "MONKEYS CONTROLLING ROBOTS WITH THEIR BRAINS!!!"

Feature story about sensors to monitor energy consumption and other environmental data in residences. (Published in Communications of the ACM.)