The IEEE Computer Society announced the launch of a career site intended to help those in the computing field navigate the rapid technology advances, globalization, shifting demographics, and new business approaches that will dramatically change the workforce over the next decade. Besides career-related technical articles, the one-stop site features online technical courses, training aids, jobs boards, career news, and columns that address current industry issues.

    Associate Publisher Dick Price noted: "IEEE Computer Society magazines regularly publish the leading thinkers in software development and related fields. We are pulling together the best material from our own and our partners' collections to help the next generation of computing professionals lay the groundwork for successful technology careers."

    Build Your Career provides technologists with practical, affordable guidance that can immediately benefit their job prospects. Those interested in career advancement can get quickly up to speed on everything from risk management and open source to agile methods and global software engineering with TechSets, our collections of authoritative articles compiled by renowned Computer Society experts. The site is aimed at students, developers, practitioners, supervisors, and executives in the software and programming, security and privacy, networking, Web, wireless, and management fields. Build Your Career is attached to the Computer Society's main Web site, which is visited by nearly 1 million unique visitors each year.

    Computer Society members typically have advanced degrees, years of programming and product development experience, and well-established professional careers. Under a content partnership with the Computer Society, Harvard Business School Publishing is making its Harvard Business Review articles, Harvard Business School Press books, and other content available to visitors of Build Your Career.

    In addition to members, Build Your Career is open to the thousands of nonmember technologists seeking to maintain or advance their current technical expertise and establish or advance their careers. International technology company Lenovo, is providing site visitors with product discounts. If an off-the-shelf software product exhibits poor dependability due to design faults, then software fault tolerance is often the only way available to users and system integrators to alleviate the problem.

    On-chip interconnection networks are rapidly becoming a key enabling technology for commodity multicore processors and SoCs common in consumer embedded systems. Last year, the National Science Foundation initiated a workshop that addressed upcoming research issues in OCIN technology, design, and implementation and set a direction for researchers in the field.