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Possible Hadoop Trajectories
Hadoop has spread rapidly in the last few years as a platform for parallel computation in Java, but we believe a lot of improvement will be required for serious production use in the science domain of a large national laboratory.
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Programming the Global Brain
Considering how we can improve our understanding and utilization of the emerging human-computer network constituting the global brain.
University of Florida Endangers CS Department
Four weeks into the academic tussle between computer science students and the administration of the University of Florida, the controversy surrounding a drastic restructuring of the school’s CS department remains unresolved.
Birthday of Ivan Sutherland, Inventor and Developer of Interactive Computer Graphics
Ivan Sutherland was the inventor and developer of MIT's Sketchpad, which launched the interactive computer graphics field. Sketchpad's many innovations included a display file for screen refresh, a recursively traversed hierarchical…
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