To let visitors access multimedia, engage in community building, and discover the formidable resources of its 14 cutting-edge magazines in one convenient place, the world's leading organization of computing professionals, the IEEE Computer Society, is launching an aggregation portal.

Highlighting coverage of hot topics, such as robotics, green computing, social networking, computer games, and agile computing, Computing Now consolidates new print and online content from the CS's peer-reviewed magazines. Including Computer, the CS's flagship title, Computing Now (http://computingnow.computer.org ), spanning all CS technologies and more than 50 identified subjects, provides free access to select peer-reviewed articles and departments from each magazine.

A scientist and senior research manager at HP Labs' Service Automation and Integration Lab, Computing Now Editor Dejan Milojicic, said: "Much like IT is consolidated in industry, in the same way, we have consolidated resources and efforts from all IEEE CS magazines for our readers".

The site's multimedia center features webinars, video blogs, podcasts, and online-only interviews with authors and guest editors. Computing Now, focusing on serving the community, encourages registered users to comment on blog entries, provide feedback, and contribute content, such as book reviews.

Registered users will have access, in the future, to additional CS magazine articles and departments and receive discounts on single-article sales. The site will feature daily, weekly, and monthly updates, as well as discounts on featured magazine subscriptions.

Computing Now, led by an advisory board of subject-matter experts from academia and industry, represents the CS's latest efforts to bridge the print and online worlds. Milojicic said Computing Now is intended to invigorate the technical publishing arena, and is poised to answer the questions: "Can we create two-way communication between the authors and the IEEE community? Can we develop a vibrant community where we all share our technical, academic, and practical knowledge and experience for the good of all, a Wikipedia for computer science services?"