Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data
Many disparate use cases can be satisfied with a single storage system.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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Undergraduate Software Engineering
Addressing the needs of professional software development.
To destabilize terrorist organizations, the <code>STONE</code> algorithms identify a set of operatives whose removal would maximally reduce lethality.
Example-Based Learning in Computer-Aided STEM Education
Example-based reasoning techniques developed for programming languages also help automate repetitive tasks in education.
Efficient Maximum Flow Algorithms
Though maximum flow algorithms have a long history, revolutionary progress is still being made.
The challenges and potential approaches to applying privacy research in engineering practice.
Quantifying Eventual Consistency with PBS
Eventual consistency is often "good enough" for practitioners given its latency and availability benefits. In this work, we explain this phenomenon and demonstrate that eventually consistent systems regularly return consistent data while providing lower latency than their strongly consistent counterparts.
Technical Perspective: Getting Consensus For Data Replication
The following paper is a breakthrough in which the authors offer a formula to calculate the probability of reading data that was not written by one of the K most recent writes.
Seeking to enrich the search experience by allowing for extra time and alternate resources.
Python Is Now the Most Popular Introductory Teaching Language at Top U.S. Universities
Eight of the top 10 CS departments in the U.S., and ~70% of the top 40, teach Python in introductory courses.
Robots Compete in Disaster Scenarios
The DARPA Robotics Challenge pitted teams from around the world against each other in a series of disaster-themed tasks.
Next-generation scientific instruments are forcing researchers to question the limits of massively parallel computing.
Big Data and Its Technical Challenges
Exploring the inherent technical challenges in realizing the potential of Big Data.
Considering the opportunities and challenges for commercial firms involved with government business process outsourcing.
Structural Challenges and the Need to Adapt
Broadening the conversation about scholars and scholarship in computing and information research.
Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts
A discussion with Michael Donat, Jafar Husain, and Terry Coatta
Community Sense and Response Systems: Your Phone as Quake Detector
The Caltech CSN project collects sensor data from thousands of personal devices for real-time response to dangerous earthquakes.
The Rise of RaaS: The Resource-as-a-Service Cloud
In the RaaS cloud, virtual machines trade in fine-grain resources on the fly.
Welcome to "Cerf's Up!" I am grateful for Editor-in-Chief Moshe Vardi's invitation to continue writing for Communications; this column succeeds the "From the President" column I penned during my service to ACM in that role.
Small-Group Code Reviews For Education
Real-time, small-group code reviews are great learning opportunities for students.
Leslie Lamport contributed to the theory and practice of building distributed computing systems that work as intended.
Visualizations Make Big Data Meaningful
New techniques are designed to translate "invisible numbers" into visible images.
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