Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize applications and redefine the digital economy.
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Because it is easy to fool, machine learning must be taught how to handle adversarial inputs.
Visualization to Understand Ecosystems
Mapping relationships between stakeholders in an ecosystem to increase understanding and make better-informed strategic decisions.
Research For Practice: Distributed Consensus and Implications of NVM on Database Management Systems
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research for practitioners.
Scaling Synchronization in Multicore Programs
Advanced synchronization methods can boost the performance of multicore software.
Will Visual Programming Crack the Code on Learning?
An emerging generation of visual coding platforms is introducing software development to young people and other beginners.
Database Decay and What To Do About It
In our opinion, database decay results from the multi-department organization of large implementations.
Most programmers would agree that some programs are elegant, and that elegant programs are better than others.
Surprise Comes Out of Black-Hole Studies: Error-Correcting Codes
Attempts to reconcile quantum information and gravity have yielded new types of error-correcting codes for proposed quantum computers.
Technical Perspective: The Power of Parallelizing Computations
"Efficient Parallelization Using Rank Convergence in Dynamic Programming Algorithms" shows how some instances of dynamic programming can be effectively parallelized by taking advantage of the algebraic properties of the underlying computations.
The Greeks and the Romans carved letters in stone and these are still eminently readable over 2,000 years later. Newer media have not been around as long but I think it is arguable that the more recent media do not have the resilience of stone or baked clay.
It is rare for research studies in computing to be reproduced. This seems odd, since we have an advantage over science done in wet labs. There is no reason for us not to be leaders in practices that enable audit and reuse when technically and legally possible.
While 3D technologies that make headlines are not truly holographic, holographic techniques are furthering advances in important applications such as biomedical imaging.
A Brief Chronology of Medical Device Security
With the implantation of software-driven devices comes unique privacy and security threats to the human body.
Naming the next generation and remembering that the cloud is just other people's computers.
Idle-Time Garbage-Collection Scheduling
Taking advantage of idleness to reduce dropped frames and memory consumption.
Dynamics of Change: Why Reactivity Matters
Tame the dynamics of change by centralizing each concern in its own module.
"Incremental, Iterative Data Processing with Timely Dataflow" describes Naiad, which combines three classes of dataflow systems, supporting high-throughput batch processing queries, low-latency data stream queries, and iterative programs in a single framework.
Incremental, Iterative Data Processing with Timely Dataflow
We describe the timely dataflow model for distributed computation and its implementation in the Naiad system.
Efficient Parallelization Using Rank Convergence in Dynamic Programming Algorithms
This paper proposes an efficient parallel algorithm for an important class of dynamic programming problems that includes Viterbi, Needleman-Wunsch, Smith-Waterman, and Longest Common Subsequence.
Can Electronics Replace Opioids?
Sophisticated algorithms allow electrical nerve stimulation products to quell pain, in some cases, better than drugs.
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