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Chen, George Mason Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University www.computer.org/computingedge 1 JUNE 2018 • VOLUME 4, NUMBER 6 THEME HERE 10 32 39 The New Killer Practices and Emerging White- App for Security: Technologies Collar Robotics: Software in Computer The Case of Inventory Game Software Watson Analytics Engineering Software 10 The New Killer App for Security: Software Inventory GARY MCGRAW 13 Publish Your Software: Introducing the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) DANIEL S. KATZ, KYLE E. NIEMEYER, AND ARFON M. SMITH Wearables 18 How Wearable Computing Is Shaping Digital Health OLIVER AMFT 26 What Will We Wear After Smartphones? OLIVER AMFT AND KRISTOF VAN LAERHOVEN Gaming 32 Practices and Technologies in Computer Game Software Engineering WALT SCACCHI Robotics 39 Emerging White-Collar Robotics: The Case of Watson Analytics DANIEL E. O’LEARY Data and Analytics 44 Different Databases for Different Strokes GREGORY VIAL 50 The Role of a Customer Data Platform SETH EARLEY Departments 4 Magazine Roundup 50 8 Editor’s Note: Software, Software Everywhere The Role of a Customer Data Platform Subscribe to ComputingEdge for free at www.computer.org/computingedge. CS FOCUS Magazine Roundup Editor: Lori Cameron the authors of this article from the April 2018 issue of Com- puter envision the co-location of open data repositories in stan- dardized formats together with high-performance computing hardware utilizing open source optimized analysis codes. 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