IEEE Announces the Availability of the Latest Issue of IBM Journal of Research and Development in Its Xplore Digital Library

IEEE (News - Alert), the world's largest technical professional association announced the publication of the November/December issue of IBM (News - Alert) Journal of Research and Development. The association also announced the availability of the journal in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

IBM Journal of Research & Development is the #1 most-cited journal in the category Computer Science, Hardware and Software, according to the 2010 Thomson Reuters (News - Alert) Journal Citation Reports, released in June 2011. IBM Journal of Research & Development was launched in 1957 by Thomas J. Watson Jr., IBM president and CEO, who viewed it as "a strong indication of the increasing emphasis we at IBM want to place in the future on fundamental science and technology."

In a press release, IEEE said that the current issue focuses on cloud computing. The readers can come to learn about the new technologies that are going to provide the building blocks for scalable and secure computing. Building on virtualization technologies, cloud computing transforms the traditional model of IT into a set of easily configurable, manageable, and scalable services and has the potential of reducing the complexities associated with IT management, IEEE explained in the release.

Cloud computing has pioneered the concept of utility computing. The technology aims to deliver ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of computing resources. Cloud computing enables setting of an IT infrastructure with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. The November/ December issue of IBM Journal of Research and Development discusses about the cloud computing challenges as well as opportunities in a broad range of areas that span systems, software, and services.

In an earlier release, IEEE Computer Society thanked 38 volunteers from universities, government agencies, and the private sector, who contributed efforts to refreshing the Certified Software Development Associate certification to bring it in line with current practices and other Computer Society software development offerings.

The 14-month effort began with a job requirements analysis that led to the framework for the new examination, which will be available to test-takers in 2012, the officials informed. Items from the existing CSDA examination were reviewed in October 2010 to see how many would be relevant for the new examination. The process of writing and reviewing 292 new items was initiated in March 2011.