Thanks to the University of New South Wales and IBM Research, scientists are moving closer to the junction of quantum and digital computing.
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Software Needs Seatbelts and Airbags
Finding and fixing bugs in deployed software is difficult and time-consuming. Here are some alternatives.
All Your Database Are Belong To Us
In the big open world of the cloud, highly available distributed objects will rule.
Self-Adaptive Software Needs Quantitative Verification at Runtime
Continually verify self-adaptation decisions taken by critical software in response to changes in the operating environment.
Security researchers used malware to investigate large-scale Internet censorship in Egypt and Libya.
Author Order: What Science Can Learn from the Arts
Some thoughts about author order in research papers.
Software Enables Pcs to Solve Problems That Once Required the Cloud
A new software program running on a single laptop or PC can, in some cases, solve bigger problems in less time than other available distributed frameworks.
The Loss of Location Privacy in the Cellular Age
How to have the best of location-based services while avoiding the growing threat to personal privacy.
Using real event data to X-ray business processes helps ensure conformance between design and reality.
To Be or Not To Be Cited in Computer Science
Traditional bias toward journals in citation databases diminishes the perceived value of conference papers and their authors.
Spreadsheet Data Manipulation Using Examples
Millions of computer end users need to perform tasks over large spreadsheet data, yet lack the programming knowledge to do such tasks automatically. We present a methodology that allows end users to automate such repetitive tasks.
Technical Perspective: Example-Driven Program Synthesis For End-User Programming
As information technology has come to permeate our society, broader classes of users have developed the need for more sophisticated data manipulation and processing. The following paper focuses on an important emerging area — end user programming.
Composable Trees For Configurable Behavior
I concur wholeheartedly with the composability benefits outlined in "Why LINQ Matters: Cloud Composability Guaranteed" (Apr. 2012) due to my experience using composability principles to design and implement the message-dissemination mechanism for a mobile ad hoc router in a proprietary network
Machine Learning and Algorithms; Agile Development
John Langford poses questions about the direction of research for machine learning and algorithms. Ruben Ortega shares lessons about agile development practices like Scrum.
Giving Students the Competitive Edge
The annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) shines the spotlight on the next generation of problem solvers during their university years. Allow me to recap the highlights of the 36th Annual ACM-ICPC World Finals, which took place May 14–18.
DARPA Shredder Challenge Solved
The eight-person winning team used original computer algorithms to narrow the search space and then relied on human observation to move the pieces into their final positions.
Online behavioral advertising and sophisticated data aggregation have changed the face of advertising and put privacy in the crosshairs.
Inside the Hermit Kingdom: IT and Outsourcing in North Korea
North Korea has a sizeable IT sector. Some 10,000 professionals work in the field, and many more have IT degrees. They are already engaged in outsourcing contracts for other countries, and are keen to expand further.
Stopping to smell the code before wasting time reentering configuration data.
Extending the Semantics of Scheduling Priorities
Increasing parallelism demands new paradigms.
Data Mining the Web Via Crawling
This post focuses on the data collection via crawling the web, by covering some of the challenges around collecting and discovering new content via a web crawler.
PADS 2012: 26th ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
July 15 – 19, 2012; Zhangjiajie, China
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