Capturing and Structuring Data Mined from the Web
Kate Matsudaira considers not only how to mine data from the Web, but what to do with it once you have it.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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Researcher Michael Cook thinks his ANGELINA software can design a video game—and that's not all.
Contribute More Than Algorithmic Speculation
Jacob Loveless et al.'s article "Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading" (Oct. 2013) is an example of potentially valuable research misdirected.
Digital Platforms: When Is Participation Valuable?
Assessing the benefits and challenges of knowledge spillovers.
Node at LinkedIn: The Pursuit of Thinner, Lighter, Faster
A discussion with Kiran Prasad, Kelly Norton, and Terry Coatta.
Provenance in Sensor Data Management
A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.
The idea is to identify security-critical software bugs so they can be fixed first.
Redundant software (and hardware) ensured Curiosity reached its destination and functioned as its designers intended.
‘master the Mainframe’ Contest Lures Next Generation to Big Iron
IBM's zEnterprise Academic Initiative is using a contest to spark student interest in coding for mainframes.
French Team Invents Faster Code-Breaking Algorithm
New method can crack certain cryptosystems far faster than earlier alternatives.
A proposal to address the problem of too many conference submissions and not enough time for reviewers to carefully evaluate each one.
I have just returned from a trip to Warsaw where I had the opportunity to visit the Copernicus Science Museum. The facility houses an amazing array of interactive exhibits. As I encountered these fascinating experiences, I thought about what we have been able to achieve in the virtual world of computing.
Actually, Turing Did Not Invent the Computer
Separating the origins of computer science and technology.
A Historical Perspective of Speech Recognition
What do we know now that we did not know 40 years ago?
Unikernels: The Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System
What if all the software layers in a virtual appliance were compiled within the same safe, high-level language framework?
Touchless Interaction in Surgery
Touchless interaction with medical images lets surgeons maintain sterility during surgical procedures.
Democratizing Transactional Programming
Control transactions without compromising their simplicity for the sake of expressiveness, application concurrency, or performance.
Legal Aspects of Interface Accessibility in the U.S.
Accessible information technology is not just good design and a clever way to win new users, it is the law.
Big data promises automated actionable knowledge creation and predictive models for use by both humans and computers.
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