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Research and Advances Apr 1 2012

Searching the Village: Models and Methods For Social Search

With Aardvark, a social search engine, users ask a question, either by IM, e-mail, Web input, text message, or voice. Aardvark then routes the question to the person in the user's extended social network most likely to be able to answer it.

Damon Horowitz and Sepandar D. Kamvar

News Apr 1 2012

Preserving Digital Data

Scientific data is expanding at an unprecedented rate. While new tools are helping preserve this data, funding must be increased and policy coordination needs improvement.

Gregory Goth

the Digital Curation Center's Curation Lifecycle Model

Research and Advances Apr 1 2012

What Agile Teams Think of Agile Principles

Even after almost a dozen years, they still deliver solid guidance for software development teams and their projects.

Laurie Williams

Research and Advances Apr 1 2012

Sample Size in Usability Studies

Magic numbers are strictly hocus-pocus, so usability studies must test many more subjects than is usually assumed.

Martin Schmettow

Opinion Apr 1 2012

The Network Protocol Battle

A tale of hubris and zealotry.

George V. Neville-Neil

yin and yang symbol composed of computer mice

Practice Apr 1 2012

Why LINQ Matters: Cloud Composability Guaranteed

The benefits of composability are becoming clear in software engineering.

Brian Beckman

Practice Apr 1 2012

CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History

With the open CPU DB database, you can mine microprocessor trends over the past 40 years.

Practice Apr 1 2012

Interactive Dynamics For Visual Analysis

A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations.

Jeffrey Heer and Ben Shneiderman

Research and Advances Apr 1 2012

Probabilistic Topic Models

Surveying a suite of algorithms that offer a solution to managing large document archives.

David M. Blei

Research and Advances Apr 1 2012

Putting the ‘Smarts’ Into the Smart Grid: A Grand Challenge For Artificial Intelligence

A research agenda for making the smart grid a reality.

Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Alex Rogers, and Nicholas R. Jennings

Putting the 'Smarts' Into the Smart Grid, illustration

News Mar 29 2012

Sanjeev Arora Wins 2011 Acm-Infosys Award

Sanjeev Arora, a computer scientist at Princeton University, is honored for breakthroughs that have advanced the power of computing.

Jack Rosenberger

Careers Mar 13 2012

Berkeley Supports It Startups High Atop the Campus

High above the University of California, Berkeley campus, IT entrepreneurs are being given the opportunity to grow their startups in the four-month-old Skydeck startup incubator/accelerator.

Paul Hyman

News Mar 6 2012

Parkagent Seeks to Reduce Urban Traffic Congestion

Researchers in Israel and the Netherlands have teamed up to create PARKAGENT, a spatially explicit agent-based software model designed to assess and optimize urban parking policies.

Paul Hyman

Opinion Mar 1 2012

The Idea Idea

What if practices rather than ideas are the main source of innovation?

Peter J. Denning

stepped path made of light bulbs, illustration

Opinion Mar 1 2012

The Artificiality of Natural User Interfaces

Toward user-defined gestural interfaces.

Alessio Malizia and Andrea Bellucci

A. plant, B. lettuce, C. cactus, illustration

Practice Mar 1 2012

SAGE: Whitebox Fuzzing For Security Testing

SAGE has had a remarkable impact at Microsoft.

Patrice Godefroid, Michael Y. Levin, and David Molnar

sample jpg image of the earth from outer space

Research and Advances Mar 1 2012

Mobicon: A Mobile Context-Monitoring Platform

User context is defined by data generated through everyday physical activity in sensor-rich, resource-limited mobile environments.

News Mar 1 2012

Policing the Future

Computer programs and new mathematical algorithms are helping law enforcement agencies better predict when and where crimes will occur.

Samuel Greengard

police vehicles and officers at crime scene

Research and Advances Mar 1 2012

Technical Perspective: The Benefits of Capability-Based Protection

Affordable personal computing hardware and the usable GUI-based PC operating systems made the vision of "a computer on every desktop and in every home" a reality. Thanks to the Internet, personal computers did not remain personal for very long.

Steven D. Gribble

Research and Advances Mar 1 2012

A Taste of Capsicum: Practical Capabilities For Unix

Capsicum is a lightweight operating system capability and sandbox framework planned for inclusion in FreeBSD 9. Capsicum extends, rather than replaces, UNIX APIs, providing new kernel primitives and a userspace sandbox API. These tools support decomposition of monolithic UNIX applications into compartmentalized logical applications.

Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, Ben Laurie, and Kris Kennaway

News Mar 1 2012

Gaining Wisdom from Crowds

Online games are harnessing humans' skills to solve scientific problems that are currently beyond the ability of computers.

Neil Savage

News Feb 7 2012

Researchers se Social Bots To Expand Twitter Networks and Influence People

That next tweet you receive on Twitter may not be from a person but from a social bot, a tiny program designed to mimic real users and influence their behavior.

Paul Hyman

BLOG@CACM Feb 1 2012

Researchers’ Big Data Crisis; Understanding Design and Functionality

Michael Stonebraker issues a call to arms about research groups' data-management problems. Jason Hong discusses the nature of functionality with respect to design.

Michael Stonebraker and Jason Hong

Opinion Feb 1 2012

Incentive Auctions

Reallocating valuable wireless spectrum can generate billions of dollars in revenue to the U.S. federal government while also benefiting consumers.

Gregory Rosston

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