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News Aug 30 2011

Replicating Human Errors to Test Network Security

University of Southern California researchers have developed a system for testing the security of computer networks by making computers simulate the type of human errors that leave networks vulnerable.

Paul Hyman

News Aug 16 2011

Researchers Find Tipping Point to Sway Public Opinion

If 10% of a social network is strongly committed to an opinion, that’s enough to rapidly convert the uncommitted 90% to adopt their point of view, according to a team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Paul Hyman

News Aug 1 2011

A New Benchmark For Artificial Intelligence

Computers are unable to defeat the world's best Go players, but that may change with the application of a new strategy that promises to revolutionize artificial intelligence.

Kirk L. Kroeker

News Aug 1 2011

Life, Translated

The Holy Grail of language translation is to develop a machine-based system that can handle the task transparently and accurately.

Samuel Greengard

Practice Aug 1 2011

The Pain of Implementing LINQ Providers

It's no easy task for NoSQL.

Oren Eini

Practice Aug 1 2011

Computing Without Processors

Heterogeneous systems allow us to target our programming to the appropriate environment.

Satnam Singh

Computing Without Processors, illustration

Opinion Aug 1 2011

Why You Should Be Happy to Sign In!

For many, the five dreaded words "This article is premium content" is a frustration. Many in the community would prefer all publications be made freely available without barriers or constraints that get in the way of downloading exactly what we want to read.

Scott E. Delman

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Research and Advances Aug 1 2011

Theory and Applications of b-Bit Minwise Hashing

Efficient (approximate) computation of set similarity in very large datasets is a common task with many applications in information retrieval and data management. One common approach for this task is minwise hashing.

Ping Li and Arnd Christian König

Opinion Aug 1 2011

Storage Strife

Beware keeping data in binary format.

George V. Neville-Neil

Research and Advances Aug 1 2011

Reputation Systems For Open Collaboration

Algorithmic-based user incentives ensure the trustworthiness of evaluations of Wikipedia entries and Google Maps business information.

Luca De Alfaro, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Ian Pye, and B. Thomas Adler

Research and Advances Aug 1 2011

Technical Perspective: Sketches Get Sketchier

Are data synopses — such as the hash-based sketches discussed by Li and König — still needed for querying massive datasets? The answer to this question is a firm "yes!"

Peter J. Haas

BLOG@CACM Aug 1 2011

Stonebraker on NoSQL and Enterprises

Michael Stonebraker discusses several reasons why NoSQL has not caught on with enterprise users.

Michael Stonebraker

Opinion Aug 1 2011

Geography Is Alive and Well in Virtual Teams

Just because a team is virtual, it doesn't mean geography is dead.

Jonathon N. Cummings

Research and Advances Aug 1 2011

An Overview of Business Intelligence Technology

BI technologies are essential to running today's businesses and this technology is going through sea changes.

Surajit Chaudhuri, Umeshwar Dayal, and Vivek Narasayya

News Jul 13 2011

Five Tips To Improve Enterprise Mobile Security

Mobile devices are increasingly connected with an ecosystem of third-party cloud and desktop services outside an enterprise's control. Here's five tips that enterprises — as well as end users — can follow to improve their mobile security.

Paul Hyman

News Jul 5 2011

Games and Learning: Seven Questions For Mary Flanagan

A professor of digital humanities at Dartmouth College, Mary Flanagan has spent her career thinking critically about a topic that most of us take for granted: Play.

Leah Hoffmann

Research and Advances Jul 1 2011

Debugging in the (Very) Large: Ten Years of Implementation and Experience

Windows Error Reporting (WER) is a distributed system that automates the processing of error reports coming from an installed base of a billion machines. WER has collected billions of error reports in 10 years of operation.

News Jul 1 2011

Weighing Watson’s Impact

Does IBM's Watson represent a distinct breakthrough in machine learning and natural language processing or is the 2,880-core wunderkind merely a solid feat of engineering?

Kirk L. Kroeker

News Jul 1 2011

Brave, New Social World

How three different individuals in three different countries — Brazil, Egypt, and Japan — use Facebook, Twitter, and other social-media tools.

Dennis McCafferty

Research and Advances Jul 1 2011

Algorithmic Composition: Computational Thinking in Music

The composer still composes but also gets to take a programming-enabled journey of musical discovery.

Michael Edwards

Research and Advances Jul 1 2011

Searching For Jim Gray: A Technical Overview

The volunteer search for Jim Gray, lost at sea in 2007, highlights the challenges of computer-aided emergency response.

Joseph M. Hellerstein and David L. Tennenhouse

Research and Advances Jul 1 2011

A Decade of Software Model Checking with SLAM

SLAM is a program-analysis engine used to check if clients of an API follow the API's stateful usage rules.

Thomas Ball, Vladimir Levin, and Sriram K. Rajamani

A Decade of Software Model Checking with SLAM, illustration

News Jul 1 2011

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension which brings readers high-quality articles in an online-only format. The following articles are now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

CACM Staff

Opinion Jul 1 2011

Solving the Unsolvable

On June 16, 1902, philosopher Bertrand Russell sent a letter to Gottlob Frege in which he argued that Frege's logical system was inconsistent. The letter launched a "Foundational Crisis" in mathematics, triggering an almost anguished search for proper foundations for mathematics.

Moshe Y. Vardi

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