Tech Industry Ph.D.s: Academia Can Be Nicer Than You Think
If more Ph.D.s do not return to the academy, there will not be enough graduates capable of taking all those high tech jobs.
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Wi-Fi Kiosks Replacing Payphones in Nyc
A move to provide free Internet services yields some unexpected consequences.
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.
Exploring ways to push more data through a fiber one-tenth the thickness of the average human hair.
The Puzzle of Japanese Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Exploring how Japan's unique mixture of social, educational, and corporate practices influence entrepreneurial activity.
Universities and Computer Science in the European Crisis of Refugees
Considering the role of universities in promoting tolerance as well as education.
Rethinking Security For Internet Routing
Combine simple whitelisting technology, notably prefix filtering, in most BGP-speaking routers with weaker cryptographic protocols.
Ethical Considerations in Network Measurement Papers
The most important consideration is how the collection of measurements may affect a person's well-being.
A Brief Chronology of Medical Device Security
With the implantation of software-driven devices comes unique privacy and security threats to the human body.
Mobile Computing and Political Transformation
Connecting increased mobile phone usage with political and market liberalization.
Naming the next generation and remembering that the cloud is just other people's computers.
Just because you have been doing it the same way doesn't mean you are doing it the right way.
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.
Computer Science, Math Laureates Convene in Heidelberg
Recipients of the Abel Prize, the Fields Medal, the Nevanlinna Prize, and the ACM A.M. Turing Award met with 200 young researchers from over 50 nations.
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