Retailers of all stripes are using technology to follow consumers through their brick-and-mortar stores in order to develop detailed profiles of their shopping habits and preferences.
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Numbers Are for Computers, Strings Are for Humans
How and where software should translate data into a human-readable form.
Directions for Professional Social Matching Systems
Future PSM systems will require diversity-enhancing yet contextually sensitive designs.
Fuzzing: Hack, Art, and Science
Reviewing software testing techniques for finding security vulnerabilities.
Not So Good After All? Don’t Let ‘Altruism’ Kill Your Company
Altruism is often heralded as a panacea for management challenges, but it could actually be a death sentence for your team and projects. Here's why.
Mastering Concurrent Computing through Sequential Thinking
A 50-year history of concurrency.
Blockchain Technology: What Is It Good For?
Industry's dreams and fears for this new technology.
In Search of the Shortest Possible Schedule
Bertrand Meyer considers how to speed up software engineering.
Autonomy and Automation on the Water
Self-driving and remote-controlled vessels are taking over some duties from human crews.
Columbia University researchers achieve a meeting of minds on Artificial Intelligence-assisted hearing technology.
Automated program repair can relieve programmers from the burden of manually fixing the ever-increasing number of programming mistakes.
Rethinking Search Engines and Recommendation Systems: A Game Theoretic Perspective
Novel approaches draw on the strength of game theoretic mechanism design.
In a career launched by groundbreaking research, Garth Gibson continues to shepherd technological advances "from blackboard through standards and to commercial reality."
Getting High School, College Students Interested in CS
Mark Guzdial considers how few U.S. high school students take computer science, while Robin K. Hill shares what she's learned in teaching first-year college computing students.
Knowing the notion of sufficient completeness and the theory of abstract data types helps practitioners produce better requirements.
Algorithms, Platforms, and Ethnic Bias
How computing platforms and algorithms can potentially either reinforce or identify and address ethnic biases.
Welcome to the India Region Special Section
The India region plays an important role in the global computing landscape with its highly trained manpower, software companies, and top universities whose students serve local and global needs. The India Region special section mirrors all these facets.
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