Data Optimization in Developing Nations
Artificial intelligence and machine learning could expand access to health care, improve the quality of education, and respond effectively to natural disasters in the developing world.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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Technology Has Social Consequences
A conference paper submission constitutes privileged communication. In theory, reviewers should immediately "forget" what they have read. How could a program committee member not know the fundamental rules of scholarly reviewing?
Stonebraker on Data Warehouses
Data warehouses are not only increasing in size and complexity, but also in their importance to business. Michael Stonebraker shares 10 key ideas on the topic.
The Importance of Reviewing the Code
Highlighting the significance of the often overlooked underlying software used to produce research results.
Finding a lasting solution to the leap seconds problem has become increasingly urgent.
Mobile Application Development: Web vs. Native
Web apps are cheaper to develop and deploy than native apps, but can they match the native user experience?
A Ruby on Rails app highlights some serious, yet easily avoided, security vulnerabilities.
Energy efficiency is the new fundamental limiter of processor performance, way beyond numbers of processors.
Privacy-Preserving Network Forensics
Privacy-preserving attribution of IP packets can help balance forensics with an individual's right to privacy.
Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products
Securitization of cash flows using financial derivatives transformed the financial industry over the last three decades. Derivatives have attracted criticism, but others say problems with derivatives would disappear with use of more accurate financial models, more vigilance by buyers and better governmental oversight.
Technical Perspective: Complex Financial Products: <i>Caveat Emptor</i>
CDOs are examples of financial derivatives, with a value that depends on the underlying assets with which they are linked. These kinds of complex financial products are the cause célèbre of the financial crisis, and many have called for their regulation or even elimination.
Embracing Noise or Why Computer Scientists Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Errors
Precision is not required in everything or even most things. Failures are best handled by expecting them all the time, not treating them as exceptions. We should expect errors and handle them routinely. We should stop worrying and learn to love the noise.
Finding Experts: It’s Who You Know
While current expert-finding methods provided the best expert in six out of 10 searches, a new user-oriented method finds the best one nine times out of 10, according to the researchers.
Universities, Industry Clash on Need For Open-Source Fpgas
Would open-source field-programmable gate arrays simplify academic research on reconfigurable computing? Researchers say yes, but industry disagrees.
Platform Wars Come to Social Media
The world can absorb more social media sites, but how many?
Technical Perspective: Liability Issues in Software Engineering
The paper by LeMétayer et al. addresses one technical issue in a large and serious problem in the production of mass-market software (MMSW), that of the lack of liability by the producers of this MMSW.
Liability Issues in Software Engineering: The Use of Formal Methods to Reduce Legal Uncertainties
This paper reports on the results of a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with the aim to put forward a set of methods and tools to (1) define software liability in a precise and unambiguous way and (2) establish such liability in case of incident. The overall approach taken in the project is presented through an electronic signature case study. The case study illustrates a situation where, in order to reduce legal uncertainties, the parties wish to include in the contract specific clauses to define as precisely as possible the share of liabilities between them for the main types of failures of the system.
Jason Hong discusses how Apple creates well-designed products and what the human-computer interaction community can learn from its methods.
Over the coming weeks, ACM will be diving headfirst into the world of mobility. Our strategy is essentially two-pronged. The first is the development of a mobile version of the existing CACM Web site. The second component is apps.
It's not easy to generate a string of numbers that lack any pattern or rule, or even to define exactly what randomness means.
The popularity of virtual goods and currencies in online gaming is changing how people think and act about money.
Programming is a creative endeavor, and therefore there is such a thing as coder's block. What does it take to clear the blockage?
Achievements and Challenges in Software Reverse Engineering
Deeply understanding the intricacies of software must always come before any considerations for modifying it.
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