Apple Seeks to Dethrone Cash, the King of Payments
Apple is getting ready to stake its claim in the rapidly growing person-to-person payments market.
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Why Is Ada Lovelace Still the Woman That Young (and Not So Young) Women Look To?
I was lucky enough to represent ACM and ACM-W at the recent Ada Lovelace Symposium at Oxford University.
Software-Defined Batteries Take Charge
Researchers are exploring a new generation of batteries that rely on software to define performance.
Speeding Delivery By 3D-Printing Products
Online mega-retailer Amazon appears to be exploring the use of 3D printing to get products to consumers faster.
On repositories of patches and tension between security professionals and in-house developers.
Increasing the Participation of Individuals with Disabilities in Computing
Lessons learned from a decade of practice.
Digital maps can be engineered to adapt to a person's unique interests and experience in geographic space.
Connecting mathematical logic and computation, it ensures that some aspects of programming are absolute.
Smart Data Pricing: Using Economics to Manage Network Congestion
Economic incentives that alleviate congestion for Internet customers can also improve business performance for network operators.
Why Our Theories of Innovation Fail Us
Until we moderate our fascination with creating ideas, we will not achieve the rate of innovations we seek.
The Case For Banning Killer Robots: Point
Ban the bots? Considering both sides of the argument for and against.
The Case For Banning Killer Robots: Counterpoint
Let me unequivocally state: The status quo with respect to innocent civilian casualties is utterly and wholly unacceptable.
Reproducibility of code is increasingly crucial to verifying scientific claims.
Technology Brings Online Education in Line with Campus Programs
Whether sitting in front of a screen or in a classroom, online and campus-based institutions want to verify students actually attend classes, take exams.
Creating a New Generation of Computational Thinkers
Experiences with a successful school program in Scotland.
Balancing statistical accuracy and subject privacy in large social-science datasets.
Challenges of Memory Management on Modern N-UMA Systems
Optimizing NUMA systems applications with Carrefour.
Lean Software Development: Building and Shipping Two Versions
Catering to developers' strengths while still meeting team objectives.
I suspect many computer scientists, like me, like to believe that, on the whole, computing benefits humanity. Thus, it is disturbing to realize computing is also making a major contribution to military technology.
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