How Computer Science Helps Feed the World

Ever wonder how grocery stores know when to order more of a certain product? Or how food safety is maintained? Or how the store analyzes the data they gather about your buying habits to directly market items to you? It’s not surprising that technology plays a key role in answering questions like these and is an integral part of the food supply chain, using advanced hardware and software approaches to process information and aid decision making.

In this Knowledge Sharing article—awarded 1st Place in the 2015 Knowledge Sharing Competition—Bruce Yellin and Stephen Yellin examine the latest innovations in the food supply chain and computer science concepts that, working in tandem, help put food on your table.

Readers will be taken on a fascinating journey of food production in an easy-to-read yet technically insightful approach guaranteed to broaden the miracle of getting food from – as the authors say – “the farm to the fork”.

Read the full article here.