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BLOG@CACM Apr 26 2012

No, Maybe, Yes, Obviously: Telling the Future the Past

The Kubler-Ross model of the stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance — is sometimes an apt description of the culture change required when technology transitions occur. High-performance computing has experienced this many times.

Architecture and Hardware

BLOG@CACM Apr 1 2012

The Power of Computing; Design Guidelines in CS Education

Daniel Reed writes about how computing systems increase human intellect and abilities. Mark Guzdial discusses the need to avoid polarized and extreme positions in education and the trend toward design-based research.

Computing Applications

BLOG@CACM Feb 10 2012

All Grown Up Now: Service and Serial Reciprocity

Computing is central to the debate about so many aspects of our present and future that we have a duty and responsibility to be active and enthusiastic participants. By paying it forward (serial reciprocity), we create an environment where a new generation can thrive, just as the founders of the field did for us.

Computing Applications

BLOG@CACM Jan 12 2012

Research Data Sustainability and Access

The dramatic growth of research data, the collaborative nature of international research, expectations for economic returns, and disciplinary differences all make data sustainability and access a pressing and difficult problem.

Computing Profession

BLOG@CACM Dec 9 2011

Planting Seeds in the Field of Knowledge

In these challenging economic times, universities are under great stress--economically, politically, and socially. It is tempting for those of us in computing to ignore these issues but, like agriculture and engineering before us, I believe computing has a social responsibility to be an active and enthusiastic partner in helping chart the nature of higher education.

Computing Profession

BLOG@CACM Nov 13 2011

SC11: The Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy Awards

The Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy awards and the work of the recipients reflect the evolving interplay of technology, software, applications and algorithms in advancing high-performance computing. They also recognize intellectual leadership and mentoring of a new generation of high-performance computing talent.

Computing Applications

BLOG@CACM Oct 8 2011

Analog Computing: Time For a Comeback?

Use of the word "computer" conjures certain images. One of them, so deeply ingrained that we rarely question it, is that computing is digital. The alternative, analog computing, has a long and illustrious history, and hybrid (digital and analog) computing may be one way to address challenges on the frontier of device physics, computer architecture and software.

Architecture and Hardware

BLOG@CACM Oct 1 2011

From Idea to Product; How Schools of Education Can Help CS

Daniel Reed discusses how researchers communicate their project ideas to companies and product groups and get them successfully adopted. Mark Guzdial considers whether schools of education could create more high school CS teachers.

Computing Applications

BLOG@CACM Sep 2 2011

Why We Compute

Why do we, as researchers and practitioners, have this deep and abiding love of computing? Why do we compute? I suspect it is a deeper, more primal yearning, one that underlies all of science and engineering and that unites us in a common cause. It is the insatiable desire to know and understand.

Architecture and Hardware

BLOG@CACM Jun 30 2011

Being Bilingual: Speaking Technology and Policy

How do we cross the intellectual divide, providing technical advice to policy experts in ways that they find useful and actionable? Equally importantly, how do we translate policy constraints — political, economic and social — into contexts intelligible and actionable by technical experts? The key in both cases is to respect the differences and values each bring to the discussion.

Computing Profession

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