The concept of cryptocurrencies is built from forgotten ideas in research literature.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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XML and JSON Are Like Cardboard
Cardboard surrounds and protects stuff as it crosses boundaries.
Engineering has been marginalized by the unhealthy belief that engineering is the application of science.
"When Does Law Enforcement's Demand to Read Your Data Become a Demand to Read Your Mind?" (Sept. 2017) was an important contribution to the ongoing debate over electronic backdoors. I would like to outline several key aspects of that debate that also need to be addressed.
Opportunities For Women, Minorities in Information Retrieval
Mei Kobayashi describes activities to support diversity and inclusion at the annual meeting of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval in Tokyo this summer.
Is There a Single Method For the Internet of Things?
Essence can keep software development for the IoT from becoming unwieldy.
Hootsuite: In Pursuit of Reactive Systems
A discussion with Edward Steel, Yanik Berube, Jonas Bonér, Ken Britton, and Terry Coatta
User Reviews of Top Mobile Apps in Apple and Google App Stores
The varying review dynamics seen in different app stores can help guide future app development strategies.
Cambits: A Reconfigurable Camera System
Multiple computational cameras can be assembled from a common set of imaging components.
Heads-Up Limit Hold’em Poker Is Solved
This paper is an extended version of our original 2015 Science article, with additional results showing Cepheus' in-game performance against computer and human opponents.
Technical Perspective: Solving Imperfect Information Games
"Heads-Up Limit Hold'em Poker Is Solved," by Michael Bowling, et al., takes the counterfactual regret minimization method for approximating a Nash equilibrium to the next level.
Technical Perspective: Shedding New Light on an Old Language Debate
"A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub," by Baishakhi Ray, et al., studies whether programming language choice and code quality are related.
Technical Perspective: Broadening and Deepening Query Optimization Yet Still Making Progress
"Multi-Objective Parametric Query Optimization," by Immanuel Trummer and Christoph Koch is a remarkable tour de force exploration of the combination of both parametric and multi-objective query optimization.
Developers know refactoring improves their software, but many find themselves unable to do so when they want to.
Multi-Objective Parametric Query Optimization
We propose a generalization of the classical database query optimization problem: multi-objective parametric query (MPQ) optimization.
A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github
What is the effect of programming languages on software quality? In this study, we gather a very large data set from GitHub in an attempt to shed some empirical light on this question.
Why Agile Teams Fail Without UX Research
Failures to involve end users or to collect comprehensive data representing user needs are described and solutions to avoid such failures are proposed.
Assuring Software Quality By Preventing Neglect
Robin K. Hill suggests software neglect is a failure of the coder to pay enough attention and take enough trouble to ensure software quality.
Why GPS Spoofing Is a Threat to Companies, Countries
Technology that falsifies navigation data presents significant dangers to public and private organizations.
Moving Beyond the Turing Test with the Allen AI Science Challenge
Answering questions correctly from standardized eighth-grade science tests is itself a test of machine intelligence.
Trust and Distrust in Online Fact-Checking Services
Even when checked by fact checkers, facts are often still open to preexisting bias and doubt.
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