Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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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.
Advances in non-volatile memory are changing the face of computing and ushering in a new era of efficiencies.
Technical Perspective: In-Situ Database Management
"NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files" investigates extending a DBMS so it can use the file data in situ, without having to load it first.
NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files
We here present the design and roadmap of a new paradigm in database systems, called NoDB, which do not require data loading while still maintaining the whole feature set of a modern database system.
On repositories of patches and tension between security professionals and in-house developers.
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.
Internet Use and Psychological Well-Being: Effects of Activity and Audience
The connection between online communication and psychological well-being depends on whom you are communicating with.
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.
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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