Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web
Big data makes common schemas even more necessary.
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The Land Sharks Are on the Squawk Box
It turns out riding across America is more than a handy metaphor for building system software.
Phonetic Analytics Technology and Big Data: Real-World Cases
Data from phone interactions can help address customers' complaints, and predict their future purchasing behavior.
YFCC100M: The New Data in Multimedia Research
This publicly available curated dataset of almost 100 million photos and videos is free and legal for all.
Technical Perspective: Catching Lies (and Mistakes) in Offloaded Computation
The system described in "Pinocchio: Nearly Practical Verifiable Computation" refines an important theoretical advance by Gennaro et al. Together, these two works represent a dramatic improvement in speed, generality, and functionality.
Technical Perspective: Program Synthesis Using Stochastic Techniques
The authors of "Stochastic Program Optimization" have developed a stochastic search technique and applied it to program optimization.
Stochastic Program Optimization
By encoding constraints of transformation correctness as terms in a cost function, and using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampler to explore the space of all possible code sequences, we are able to generate aggressively optimized versions of a given target code sequence.
Pinocchio: Nearly Practical Verifiable Computation
We introduce Pinocchio, a built system for efficiently verifying general computations while relying only on cryptographic assumptions.
A social network can sometimes make more of us than we ought to be.
The Top Technews Stories of 2015
ACM sent more than 1,800 news abstracts to around 100,000 of its members last year via email, in the form of TechNews.
Imagine a 500-square-by-500-square red/black ice checkerboard with walls along all four edges.
Time Is an Illusion Lunchtime Doubly So
Ford Prefect to Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Open Data and Civic Apps: First-Generation Failures, Second-Generation Improvements
Developers first need compelling incentives and committed management.
The Building Blocks of a Cloud Strategy: Evidence from Three SaaS Providers
Before looking to enter a cloud-based market, weigh industry characteristics and one's own stock of design capital.
Knowing where you are in space and time promises a deeper understanding of neighbors, ecosystems, and the environment.
Algebraic Fingerprints For Faster Algorithms
Algorithmic solutions to tough computational problems are making an impressive comeback.
Technical Perspective: Enlisting the Power of the Crowd
An important contribution of "Answering Enumeration Queries with the Crowd" is the observation that by using the crowd for the collection of new data, we are departing from the classical closed word assumption, which underlies traditional database systems.
Answering Enumeration Queries with the Crowd
Hybrid human/computer database systems promise to greatly expand the usefulness of query processing by incorporating the crowd. Such systems raise many implementation questions. To address the issues, we develop statistical tools that enable users and systems developers to reason about query completeness.
Advances in non-volatile memory are changing the face of computing and ushering in a new era of efficiencies.
Computer understanding of images has improved rapidly, but true visual intelligence is still a long way off.
For the past month, I have been on the road in Latin America. Everywhere, I came away with a sense there is strong interest in Internet use in business, education, government services, and applications for the general public.
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