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Research and Advances Sep 1 2010

Technical Perspective: Programming With Differential Privacy

Government agencies worldwide release statistical information about population, education, and health, crime, and economic activities. In the U.S., protecting this data goes back to the 19th century, when the field of statistical disclosure limitation was born.

Johannes Gehrke

Opinion Sep 1 2010

Science Has Only Two Legs

Science has been growing new legs of late. The traditional "legs" (or "pillars") of the scientific method were theory and experimentation. Computational science has been called the 'third pillar' of scientific inquiry, and has been recently augmented by yet a "fourth paradigm."

Moshe Y. Vardi

News Aug 24 2010

Yahoo! Labs Competition Yields Better Ranking Model

The Learning to Rank Challenge showed Yahoo! that its approach to search is on target, but there’s still room for improvement.

By Marina Krakovsky

BLOG@CACM Aug 23 2010

Why Is Great Design So Hard (Part Two)?

Previously, I asked the question of why great design is so hard to integrate in organizations. In this article, I take a look at how Apple does design, and what we can learn from it.

Jason Hong

BLOG@CACM Aug 23 2010

The First ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC)

Earlier this summer the first ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing was held in Indianapolis, Indiana. With three stellar keynotes and an exceptional program, the inaugural symposium was a success. Next year's SoCC will be co-located with SOSP in Portugal, and the CFP is already up at http://socc2011.gsd.inesc-id.pt/call-for-papers.

Jeff Hammerbacher

BLOG@CACM Aug 11 2010

Better Game Playing Using Parallel Algorithms

Innovations in playing the game "Go" using Monte Carlo Tree Search and parallel algorithms.

Ruben Ortega

BLOG@CACM Aug 9 2010

On Software Updates and Version Changes

Since the beginning of software industry, developers have produced updates for their products on a regular basis. How do these updates affect the software itself and the end user?

Carlos Brewer

Drummond Ltd. Systems engineer Carlos A. Brewer R.

Research and Advances Aug 1 2010

The Singularity System

Safe, modern programming languages let Microsoft rethink the architectural trade-offs in its experimental operating system.

James Larus and Galen Hunt

Research and Advances Aug 1 2010

Predicting the Popularity of Online Content

Early patterns of Digg diggs and YouTube views reflect long-term user interest.

Gabor Szabo and Bernardo A. Huberman

Research and Advances Aug 1 2010

Memory Models: A Case For Rethinking Parallel Languages and Hardware

Solving the memory model problem will require an ambitious and cross-disciplinary research direction.

Sarita V. Adve and Hans-J. Boehm

Opinion Aug 1 2010

Remembrances of Things Pest

Recalling malware milestones.

Eugene H. Spafford

Practice Aug 1 2010

Software Development with Code Maps

Could ubiquitous hand-drawn code map diagrams become a thing of the past?

Robert DeLine, Gina Venolia, and Kael Rowan

Practice Aug 1 2010

Moving to the Edge: A CTO Roundtable on Network Virtualization

Leading experts debate how virtualization and clouds impact network service architectures.

Mache Creeger

Practice Aug 1 2010

Seven Principles For Selecting Software Packages

Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask about the decision-making process.

Jan Damsgaard and Jan Karlsbjerg

Research and Advances Aug 1 2010

Reasoning About the Unknown in Static Analysis

Static program analysis techniques cannot know certain values, such as the value of user input or network state, at analysis time. While such unknown values need to be treated as nondeterministic choices made by the program's execution environment, it is still possible to glean very useful information about how such statically unknown values may or must influence computation.

Isil Dillig, Thomas Dillig, and Alex Aiken

News Aug 1 2010

Gödel Prize and Other CS Awards

Sanjeev Arora, Joseph S.B. Mitchell, and other researchers are recognized for their contributions to computer science.

Jack Rosenberger

Research and Advances Aug 1 2010

Technical Persepctive: Attacks Target Web Server Logic and Prey on XCS Weaknesses

A system is secure only if the entire system is secure. While this may sound obvious, achieving total security throughout a system is rarely trivial when you consider many real-world systems are constantly evolving.

Helen Wang

Research and Advances Aug 1 2010

Technical Persepctive: Large-Scale Sound and Precise Program Analysis

You are given a program. Will it crash? Is it subject to a spoofing, buffer overflow, or injection attack? Is this part of it dead code? Can I replace that code fragment with a more efficient one? All of these questions require program analysis.

Fritz Henglein

Opinion Aug 1 2010

Presenting Your Project

The what, the how, and the why of giving an effective presentation.

George V. Neville-Neil

Opinion Aug 1 2010

Rights For Autonomous Artificial Agents?

The growing role of artificial agents necessitates modifying legal frameworks to better address human interests.

Samir Chopra

News Aug 1 2010

An Interview With Edsger W. Dijkstra

The computer science luminary, in one of his last interviews before his death in 2002, reflects on a programmer's life.

Philip L. Frana and Thomas J. Misa

Research and Advances Aug 1 2010

How a Service-Oriented Architecture May Change the Software Development Process

Software development practices have evolved substantially during the past decade. As so called "agile" approaches have gained more acceptance, the service-oriented approach to IT architecture has become an important alternative to traditional software development.

Marc N. Haines and Marcus A. Rothenberger

Research and Advances Aug 1 2010

thinkflickrthink: A Case Study on Strategic Tagging

The growth both in quantity and diversity of online communities across the World Wide Web, along with a number of new technologies that enhance both social interaction and content management, have bred an array of increasingly participatory practices.

Eugenio Tisselli

Research and Advances Aug 1 2010

Intelligent Service Machine

The service sector is becoming increasingly important to the economies of many countries, especially developed countries. OECD recently released a report noting that government policy in developed countries has not been attuned to the service sector.

Wei-Fung Tung and Soe-Tsyr Yuan

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