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Remembering Internet Dogs
An iconic cartoon by Peter Steiner, which appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, captured the nature of the nascent Internet. It shows a dog seated at a computer,...
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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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Virtual Education: One More Step to Close the Gap
Is virtual education a feasible option to deliver rich educational contents to country side zones where no traditional schools are available?
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Personal Factories
Since several years ago, with the beginning of nanoscience, the idea having of micro factories, like household microwave ovens, is floating in the air.
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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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How Much Software Testing Is Enough?
Investing in a large amount of software testing can be difficult to justify, particularly for a startup company. How much software testing is enough?
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Learning from the DARPA Network Challenge
Part 3: Lessons Learned. This is the story of the Georgia Tech team's experiences in the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition designed to see how online social...
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Finding DARPA's 10 Red Balloons
Part 2: Launch Day. This is the story of the Georgia Tech team's experiences in the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition designed to see how online social networks...
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Preparing For the DARPA Network Challenge
In late 2009 DARPA held its Network Challenge, a competition designed to see how online social networks could locate 10 red weather balloons moored throughout the...
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The Ghosts of Holiday Shopping: Past, Present and Future
In many parts of the western world, the frenzy of holiday shopping has reached its crescendo. With apologies to Charles Dickens, it is instructive to consider...
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Internet Connectivity and Multimedia Content in Latin America
How Internet connectivity has affected multimedia content in Latin America.
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Wrapping up OOPSLA, Looking Forward For SPLASH
Like all good things, OOPSLA 09 concluded last Thursday. A great conference with many interesting presentations, I'm already looking forward for the next one :...
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Developing Software For the Outer Space
Making good software is hard. Making software that has to work without defects on a different planet is extremely hard. Today Gerard Holzmann explained how NASA...
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The Power of Abstraction–Barbara Liskov's OOPSLA Keynote
Barbara Liskov is the Turing Award winner for 2008 for her pioneering work in programming languages. She was the keynote speaker in OOPSLA 2009 and talked about...
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Taming the Clouds at OOPSLA
OOPSLA 2009 workshops started yesterday (Sunday Oct 25th) and featured two workshops on Cloud Computing. The presence of a diverse audience led to many interesting...
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The Rise of Empirical Software Engineering (II): What We Are Still Missing
One obstacle is hampering the progress of empirical software engineering: we are still missing a culture of reproducibility
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The Rise of Empirical Software Engineering (I): The Good News
Empirical software engineering papers, at places like the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), used to be terrible. There were exceptions, of...
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