The Robots Are Taking Over! (Perhaps Not Quite Yet)
Programs fix themselves! Today! It's scary!
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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SF Reading For Computer Scientists: Summer 2015
Summer reading recommendations for computer scientists, courtesy of the SIGCSE 2015 Using Science Fiction in CS Courses BOF.
Passwords and the Evolution of Imperfect Authentication
Theory on passwords has lagged practice, where large providers use back-end smarts to survive with imperfect technology.
Exascale Computing and Big Data
Scientific discovery and engineering innovation requires unifying traditionally separated high-performance computing and big data analytics.
Using Rhetorical Structure in Sentiment Analysis
A deep, fine-grain analysis of rhetorical structure highlights crucial sentiment-carrying text segments.
Quality vs. Quantity in Faculty Publications
I applaud the Computing Research Association best practices memo Moshe Y. Vardi mentioned in his May 2015 Editor's Letter. However, more specific guidelines are needed for this initiative to be effective.
Preserving the Digital Record of Computing History
Reflecting on the complexities associated with maintaining rapidly changing information technology.
ACM Announces 2014 Award Recipients
Recognizing excellence in technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer science and information technology.
Using Free and Open Source Tools to Manage Software Quality
An agile process implementation
Low-Latency Distributed Applications in Finance
The finance industry has unique demands for low-latency distributed systems.
Unifying Logic and Probability
Open-universe probability models show merit in unifying efforts.
Cache Efficient Functional Algorithms
We present a cost model for analyzing the memory efficiency of algorithms expressed in a simple functional language.
Technical Perspective: The Simplicity of Cache Efficient Functional Algorithms
In "Cache Efficient Functional Algorithms," Blelloch and Harper suggest we analyze the costs of functional algorithms by assuming objects are allocated sequentially in cache memory, with each new object adjacent to the previously allocated object.
Exascale Computing and Big Data: Time To Reunite
It is past time to reunite the big data, cloud, and high-performance computing communities. Each can each learn much from the other.
Future Internets Escape the Simulator
Future Internet testbeds permit experiments not possible in today's public Net or commercial cloud services.
Technical Perspective: Virtual Reality in Your Living Room
The authors of IllumiRoom investigate what AR/VR could look like in a truly social environment — the living room.
Illumiroom: Immersive Experiences Beyond the TV Screen
IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept system that surrounds a television with projected light, bringing video games, and film experiences out of the TV screen and into the real world.
The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
Michael Stonebraker didn't realize at the outset that it would take six years to create INGRES, one of the world's first relational databases.
Smartphone apps are driving changes in the way people park. Sensors, crowdsourcing, and big data are making it easier to find open parking spots.
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