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Research and Advances Aug 1 2010

Plat_Forms: Is There One Best Web Development Technology?

Software developers during their work face a multitude of options. There are methodological choices and technological choices. While solid research is available on some methodological topics, there is hardly any high-quality information on how specific technologies influence development success.

Lutz Prechelt

BLOG@CACM Jul 21 2010

Why Is Great Design So Hard?

Why is good design so hard to accomplish for organizations? People are coming to the realization that design really matters, but it's not that they don't want to follow suit, it seems that they are not able to.

Jason Hong

BLOG@CACM Jul 17 2010

In Vivo, In Vitro, In Silico

These “grand challenges” of systems biology encompass almost every aspect of modern computing, from numerical and symbolic methods through data management and analytics to extraordinarily high-performance computing platforms.

Daniel Reed

BLOG@CACM Jul 9 2010

Web Applications Crave Memory

Big web applications are hungry for RAM. They want lots of low power RAM. And they want little else.

Greg Linden

Research and Advances Jul 1 2010

Application Service Providers: Market and Adoption Decisions

A relatively new form of IS outsourcing, Application Services Provision (ASP), provides applications to multiple entities from its data center across a wide area network.

Yurong Yao, Edward Watson, and Beverly K. Kahn

Opinion Jul 1 2010

Outsourcing Versus Shared Services

Choosing between outsourcing and shared services has significant implications for long-term corporate strategy.

Mari Sako

News Jul 1 2010

In the Virtual Extension

Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These seven articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.

CACM Staff

Research and Advances Jul 1 2010

Computer Graphics For All

Interactive computer graphics would rival word-processing and presentation programs for everyday communications.

Takeo Igarashi

Research and Advances Jul 1 2010

Commonsense Understanding of Concurrency: Computing Students and Concert Tickets

Innate understanding of concurrency helps beginners solve CS problems with multiple processes executing at the same time.

Research and Advances Jul 1 2010

Technical Perspective: A Solid Foundation For X86 Shared Memory

Multithreaded programs that communicate through shared memory are pervasive. Today they are the most obvious route to using multiple available processor cores for a single task.

Hans-J. Boehm

Research and Advances Jul 1 2010

X86-TSO: A Rigorous and Usable Programmer’s Model For X86 Multiprocessors

Exploiting the multiprocessors that have recently become ubiquitous requires high-performance and reliable concurrent systems code. However, concurrent programming, which is always challenging, is made much more so by two problems.

News Jul 1 2010

Sharing Computational Perspectives

Computer scientists are now making intellectual contributions to a wide range of other disciplines, including evolutionary theory, physics, and economics.

David Lindley

News Jul 1 2010

Mainstreaming Augmented Reality

Advancements in computer vision, object recognition, and related technologies are leading to new levels of sophistication in augmented-reality applications and presenting new ways for humans to relate to the natural world.

Kirk L. Kroeker

maintenance technician pressing virtual buttons

Practice Jul 1 2010

The Ideal HPC Programming Language

Maybe it's Fortran. Or maybe it just doesn't matter.

Eugene Loh

Practice Jul 1 2010

You’re Doing It Wrong

Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again.

Poul-Henning Kamp

Research and Advances Jul 1 2010

Algorithmic Game Theory

A new era of theoretical computer science addresses fundamental problems about auctions, networks, and human behavior.

Tim Roughgarden

Research and Advances Jul 1 2010

How Distributed Data Mining Tasks Can Thrive as Knowledge Services

Computer science applications are becoming more network centric, ubiquitous, knowledge intensive, and computing demanding. This will result in an ecosystem of pervasive applications and services that professionals and end-users can exploit everywhere.

Domenico Talia and Paolo Trunfio

Research and Advances Jul 1 2010

Why Do People Tag? Motivations For Photo Tagging

Tagging is gaining much popularity in recent years. Studies have suggested several factors that motivate user tagging. However, to date no quantitative study has assessed the strength of the effects of each motivation on levels of tag usage.

Oded Nov and Chen Ye

News Jun 15 2010

Programming ‘boot Camp’ Offers Basic Training

John Stamey is a drill-sergeant to computer science students at Coastal Carolina University. Everyone in first-semester programming must write 370 programs. Student performance has improved dramatically.

By Marina Krakovsky

Research and Advances Jun 1 2010

Technical Perspective: Learning To Do Program Verification

When you decide to use a piece of software, how do you know it will do what you need it to do? Will it be safe to run? Will it interfere with other software you already have?

K. Rustan M. Leino

Research and Advances Jun 1 2010

Asserting and Checking Determinism For Multithreaded Programs

The trend towards processors with more and more parallel cores is increasing the need for software that can take advantage of parallelism. Writing correct multithreaded programs, however, has proven to be quite challenging in practice.

Jacob Burnim and Koushik Sen

Research and Advances Jun 1 2010

Examining Perceptions of Agility in Software Development Practice

Organizations undertaking software development are often reminded that successful practice depends on a number of non-technical issues that are managerial, cultural and organizational in nature.

Research and Advances Jun 1 2010

Barriers to Systematic Model Transformation Testing

Model Driven Engineering (MDE) techniques support extensive use of models in order to manage the increasing complexity of software systems. Automatic model transformations play a critical role in MDE since they automate complex, tedious, error-prone, and recurrent software development tasks.

BLOG@CACM Jun 1 2010

The Chaos of the Internet as an External Brain; and More

From the early days of computers, people have speculated that computers would be used to supplement our intelligence. In the last decades, most of the work toward this dream has been in the form of trying to build artificial intelligence.

Greg Linden, Ed H. Chi, and Mark Guzdial

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