Researchers are trying to build robots capable of working together with minimal human supervision. But will they ever learn to get along?
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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Researchers are exploring networked computational analysis, formal classification, and topic modeling to better identify relevant scientists, ideas, and trends.
Examining the role of human emotional response in making complex security-related decisions.
Software as a Service For Data Scientists
Globus Online manages fire-and-forget file transfers for big-data, high-performance scientific collaborations.
Avoid premature commitment, seek design alternatives, and automatically generate performance-optimized software.
What Have We Learned About Software Engineering?
Upon closer examination, everything old appears to be new again in the realm of software engineering.
Progress and Challenges in Intelligent Vehicle Area Networks
Vehicle area networks form the backbone of future intelligent transportation systems.
Automated synthesis of program fragments from specifications can make programs easier to write and easier to reason about. To integrate synthesis into programming languages, software synthesis algorithms should behave in a predictable way.
Technical Perspective: Compiling What to How
The following paper by Viktor Kuncak et al. integrates declarative programming into a general-purpose language, allowing one to escape the host language when a subproblem can be solved declaratively.
Advances and Challenges in Log Analysis
Logs contain a wealth of information to help manage systems.
Researchers Corral Chip Power-Performance Requirements
Researchers are exploring ways to improve the energy efficiency of microprocessor hardware and software as next-generation chips and languages grow even more power-hungry.
What Fueled Twitter’s Success?
Innovators anxious to see their software products go viral might want to take a close look at how Twitter—which is said to have more than 300 million users worldwide—accomplished that feat.
Understanding CS1 Students; Defective Software
Mark Guzdial writes about why teachers must grasp introductory CS students' theories about computing. Bertrand Meyer argues for the necessity of analyzing large-scale software disasters and publishing a detailed technical study.
The IBM PC: From Beige Box to Industry Standard
Looking back at three decades of PC platform evolution.
Winner of the 1971 A.M. Turing Award, John McCarthy was a founder of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Lisp programming language.
Great strides are being made in finding fast alternatives to the slow disks that dominate storage systems, but fast media are not nearly enough.
Decoupling a logical device from its physical implementation offers many compelling advantages.
Looking past the systems people use, they target the people using the systems.
Flexible Experimentation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Virtual testbeds model them by seamlessly integrating physical, simulated, and emulated sensor nodes and radios in real time.
Long-Term Confidentiality of PKI
How to guarantee files encrypted and transmitted today stay confidential for years to come.
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