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The "NoSQL" Discussion has Nothing to Do With SQL
Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about "No SQL" databases. This blog post considers the performance argument about No SQL databases; a subsequent posting will address the flexibility argument.
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Internet Connectivity and Multimedia Content in Latin America
How Internet connectivity has affected multimedia content in Latin America.
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 to shed some lights on Facebook’s scaling issues and successes…
Consilience: The Path to Innovation
I believe solutions to many of the most challenging problems facing our society – medicine and health care, climate and the environment, economic security and privacy – will require fusing expertise from multiple disciplines,…
Blogging Informatics Education Europe IV, Day Two
The second day of Informatics Education IV in Freiburg, Germany, focused on accreditation, expanding enrollments, student engagement, parellelism, and interdisciplinarity.
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?
Blogging Informatics Education Europe IV, Day One
Informatics Education Europe, a workshop sponsored by ACM, BCS, Intel, and Microsoft, is focusing on improving computing education across Europe.
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 : SPLASH in Reno, Nevada.
Innovation = Good Idea + Implementation + Measurement
We aspire to be innovative, but unless we are wiling to implement it and measure it its just another good idea.
AP CS no Longer Counts for High School Graduation in Georgia (for now)
Georgia used to count AP CS as a fourth "science" class towards high school graduation. As of 1 October 2009, that is no longer true.
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