A new paradigm is needed to cope with the application, technology, and discipline challenges to our computing profession in the coming decades.
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From Idea to Product; How Schools of Education Can Help CS
Daniel Reed discusses how researchers communicate their project ideas to companies and product groups and get them successfully adopted. Mark Guzdial considers whether schools of education could create more high school CS teachers.
There are two situations in software testing that scare testers: when they see "too many" defects and when they do not see "enough."
ACM Technews Now Available in the Android Market
After the successful launch of the ACM TechNews iPhone and iPad apps last year, ACM now introduces an Android version for both Android smartphones and tablets. ACM will continue to provide new and compatible options for accessing content on these devices.
The Modes and Uses of Scientific Publication
Publication is about helping the advancement of humankind. Let us take this basis for granted and look at the other, possibly less glamorous aspects. Publication has four modes: Publicity; Exam; Business; and Ritual.
New Supercomputer Benchmarks Overdue?
The yardstick used to identify the world’s best-performing supercomputers–the Linpack Benchmark–no longer reflects "real-world usage" and ought to be replaced with a new metric, says Allan Snavely.
Why do we, as researchers and practitioners, have this deep and abiding love of computing? Why do we compute? I suspect it is a deeper, more primal yearning, one that underlies all of science and engineering and that unites us in a common cause. It is the insatiable desire to know and understand.
Jeannette M. Wing @ PCAST; Barbara Liskov Keynote
Jeannette M. Wing discusses her PCAST presentation about the importance of computer science and its impact. Valerie Barr shares highlights from Barbara Liskov's keynote at Grace Hopper.
Masterful time management means not just tracking of messages in your personal environment, but managing your coordination network with others.
Protecting Users of the Cyber Commons
Establish a global cyber "neighborhood watch" enabling users to take defensive action to protect their operations.
Satisfiability Modulo Theories: Introduction and Applications
Checking the satisfiability of logical formulas, SMT solvers scale orders of magnitude beyond custom ad hoc solvers.
Realizing the Future of Wireless Data Communications
Technologies are available to unlock radio spectrum as consumers need it.
Vetting Browser Extensions For Security Vulnerabilities with VEX
The browser has become the de facto platform for everyday computation and a popular target for attackers of computer systems. Among the many potential attacks that target browsers, vulnerabilities in browser extensions have received relatively little attention.
Technical Perspective: Making Browser Extensions Secure
Vulnerabilities in browsers and their extensions have become the primary venue through which cyber criminals compromise the security of Web users and, ultimately, earn money.
Calculating and Improving ROI in Software and System Programs
The investment value of innovation follows from a technology's uncertain net present value and derived ROI calculations.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Global IT Outsourcing
How to improve IT outsourcing relationships while doing good for society.
ACM CTO Roundtable on Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
Finding solutions as growth and fragmentation complicate mobile device support.
A Breakthrough in Algorithm Design
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have devised an algorithm that might be able to solve a certain class of linear systems much more quickly than today's fastest solvers.
The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.
Quantitative Analysis of Real-Time Systems Using Priced Timed Automata
Timed automata and their extensions allow for analysis of a wide range of performance and optimization problems.
Crossing to the Dark Side: Examining Creators, Outcomes, and Inhibitors of Technostress
Exploring the factors that may lead to the inability of professionals to adapt or cope with emerging IS in a healthy manner.
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