Software Engineering and Programming Languages Archives - Page 84 of 283

Research and Advances Jan 1 2011

Technical Perspective: Sora Promises Lasting Impact

The objective of Sora is to build a software defined radio that combines the performance and fidelity of hardware platforms with the programmability and flexibility of general-purpose processors.

Dina Katabi

Opinion Jan 1 2011

Reflections on the Toyota Debacle

A look in the rearview mirror reveals system and process blind spots.

Michael A. Cusumano

Opinion Jan 1 2011

Don’t Bring Me a Good Idea

You want to know how to get my attention?" Jason Kalich asked the audience rhetorically. "First off, don't bring me a good idea—I've already got plenty of good ideas."

Phillip G. Armour

Research and Advances Jan 1 2011

On the Move, Wirelessly Connected to the World

How to experience real-world landmarks through a wave, gaze, location coordinates, or touch, prompting delivery of useful digital information.

Peter Fröhlich, Antti Oulasvirta, Matthias Baldauf, and Antti Nurminen

Research and Advances Jan 1 2011

OpenSocial: An Enabler For Social Applications on the Web

Building on the OpenSocial API suite, developers can create applications that are interoperable within the context of different social networks.

Matthias Häsel

News Jan 1 2011

India’s Elephantine Effort

An ambitious biometric ID project in the world's second most populous nation aims to relieve poverty, but faces many hurdles.

Marina Krakovsky

News Jan 1 2011

EMET Prize and Other Awards

Edward Felten, David Harel, Sarit Kraus and others are honored for their contributions to computer science, technology, and electronic freedom and innovation.

Jack Rosenberger

News Jan 1 2011

Nonlinear Systems Made Easy

Pablo Parrilo has discovered a new approach to convex optimization that creates order out of chaos in complex nonlinear systems.

Gary Anthes

Practice Jan 1 2011

Virtualization: Blessing or Curse?

Managing virtualization at a large scale is fraught with hidden challenges.

Evangelos Kotsovinos

Practice Jan 1 2011

UX Design and Agile: A Natural Fit?

Talking with Julian Gosper, Jean-Luc Agathos, Richard Rutter, and Terry Coatta.

Jean-Luc Agathos, Terry Coatta, Julian Gosper, and Richard Rutter

Research and Advances Jan 1 2011

Using Simple Abstraction to Reinvent Computing For Parallelism

The ICE abstraction may take CS from serial (single-core) computing to effective parallel (many-core) computing.

Uzi Vishkin

Research and Advances Jan 1 2011

A Firm Foundation For Private Data Analysis

What does it mean to preserve privacy?

Cynthia Dwork

Research and Advances Jan 1 2011

Sora: High-Performance Software Radio Using General-Purpose Multi-Core Processors

Sora, a fully programmable software radio platform on commodity PC architectures, combines the performance and fidelity of hardware software-defined radio platforms with the programmability and flexibility of general-purpose processor SDR platforms.

Opinion Jan 1 2011

Scholarly Publishing Model Needs an Update

Science demands an overhaul of the well-established system of peer-review in scholarly communication. The current system is outmoded, inefficient, and slow. The only question is how!

David Roman

News Dec 1 2010

Topic Models vs. Unstructured Data

With topic modeling, scientists can explore and understand huge collections of unlabeled information.

Gary Anthes

News Dec 1 2010

The Eyes Have It

Eye-tracking control for mobile phones might lead to a new era of context-aware user interfaces.

Gregory Goth

Queen's University associate professor Roel Vertgaal

Opinion Dec 1 2010

We Need a Research Data Census

The increasing volume of research data highlights the need for reliable, cost-effective data storage and preservation at the national scale.

Francine Berman

Opinion Dec 1 2010

Future Tense: Rebirth of Worlds

Build a digital library of pioneering virtual worlds as a living laboratory of history and social science.

Rumilisoun

Research and Advances Dec 1 2010

The Role of Conference Publications in CS

A bibliometric view of the publishing frequency and impact of conference proceedings compared to archival journal publication.

Massimo Franceschet

Opinion Dec 1 2010

Literate Coding

While it is true that "programmers aren't English majors," there are many days that I wish they were, or that they knew one and offered to help with their science or math homework in return for some help making themselves better understood.

George V. Neville-Neil

BLOG@CACM Dec 1 2010

Security Advice; Malvertisements; and CS Education in Qatar

Greg Linden discusses security advice and the cost of user effort, Jason Hong considers the increase in malvertisements, and Mark Guzdial writes about gender and CS education in Qatar.

Greg Linden, Jason Hong, and Mark Guzdial

Research and Advances Dec 1 2010

A Global Collaboration to Deploy Help to China

A firsthand account of an international team effort to install the Sahana disaster-management system in Chengdu, Sichuan after an earthquake.

Opinion Dec 1 2010

The Long Quest For -Universal Information Access

Digital object repositories are on the cusp of resolving the long-standing problem of universal information access in the Internet.

Peter J. Denning and Robert E. Kahn

Research and Advances Dec 1 2010

Certified Software

Only if the programmer can prove (through formal machine-checkable proofs) it is free of bugs with respect to a claim of dependability.

Zhong Shao

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