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Talking With PCAST
I told three stories at PCAST — The Google Story, Model Checking, and Machine Learning — as a way to illustrate the importance of sustained federal funding of basic...
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Simple HPC Wins
You want to be the first person to design a successful, transistorized computer system, not the last person to design vacuum tube computer. Any designer's challenge...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Web Applications Crave Memory
Big web applications are hungry for RAM. They want lots of low power RAM. And they want little else.
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The Future of Electronic Design Automation, According to IBM
To paraphrase Mr. Meyerson: A truly talented engineer is someone who, when his hand gets slammed in a doorway and is badly hurt, inserts his other hand in the doorway...
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Malvertisements Growing as Online Security Threat
Malvertisements are attempts to inject malware and scareware into advertisements, leveraging the reach that advertising networks have. This blog entry examines...
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On Social Networks, Political Campaigns and Threats
Brief discussion on how social networks are now the battlefield of political campaigns, death threats and more.
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Consumerization of IT and Research
When a corporate, government, or university IT department of the 1970s debated an upgrade to its IBM S/370 mainframes, it is doubtful that the IT director was in...
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Internet Information Freedom Revisited.
Many countries have started to control access to information on Internet for their citizens, most famous case being China, but Latin America does not escape this...
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A Personal View of the Future of Personal Computing
The future of computers will be created by a conjunction of several key aspects of technology.
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Investigating Old Problems in a New Light at CSCW, Day 2
This post will give a summary of one paper each from sessions on Groupware Technologies, the experimental CSCW Horizons, and Everyday Healthcare.
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Paucity to Plethora: Jevons Paradox
I suspect much of computing is still socially conditioned by its roots in computational paucity to recognize fully the true opportunity afforded by computational...
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Showcasing European Computer Science
Retrospective on the 2009 European Computer Science Summit and the launch of ACM Europe
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SC09 Reflections: The Need For Speed
SC09 (aka the “Supercomputing Conference”) was held during the week of November 16. The conference set an attendance record this year – roughly 10,000 attendees...
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Extreme Agility at Facebook
Robert Johnson, director of engineering at Facebook was the last keynote at OOPSLA 2009. Robert’s talk: “Moving Fast at Scale - Lessons Learned at Facebook”, aimed...
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Who Needs Massively Multi-Core?
Do consumers want massively multi-core? Or would they rather have lower power consumption and better memory bandwidth? Are we building what people want?
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