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Crossing the Software Education Chasm

An Agile approach that exploits cloud computing.

blog@CACM | 05.02.2012
Possible Hadoop Trajectories

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.

Opinion | 05.01.2012
Programming the Global Brain

Programming the Global Brain

Considering how we can improve our understanding and utilization of the emerging human-computer network constituting the global brain.

News | 05.15.2012
University of Florida Endangers CS Department

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.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY | 05.16.1938
Ivan Sutherland using Sketchpad on the MIT TX-2 computer system.

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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