Does ACM Support Matter to Conferences or Journals?
ACM is one of many organizations that sponsors IT conferences and journals. So, why use ACM?
David A. Patterson
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Reflections on a Programming Olympiad
Does ACM's programming contest give insight into the relative strengths of IT education around the world?
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Recognizing Individual Excellence Helps US All
In addition to honoring individuals who have advanced our field, recognizing technical excellence enhances the image of our profession and helps attract the best and brightest to our field.
The State of Funding For New Initiatives in Computer Science and Engineering
The intellectual opportunities are huge, the social benefits transforming, yet redesigning a workable funding model for CS&E research will require our collective imagination and collaboration between many IT sectors.
20th Century vs. 21st Century C&c: the Spur Manifesto
As technologists, we must confront the current weaknesses and deliver on the potential opportunities of computer and communication technologies in the 21st century. Consider this a call to arms for tackling that challenge.
Nearing the end of a talk I gave at Google recently, I turned to the subject of becoming a member of ACM. I’ve come to realize that some people are just joiners while others want to know what they get for their money. Baby boomers like me tend to be joiners, but everyone likely seeks […]
Minority-Minority and Minority-Majority Technology Transfer
Finding technology solutions to help those in need can often lead to welcomed answers for all if we look at the big picture.
The Health of Research Conferences and the Dearth of Big Idea Papers
Research conferences are often the most desirable venues for presenting our research results. For academic computer scientists and engineers, preferring conferences over journals is so common that we even lobby administrators to ensure that conference papers can be viewed in the same light as journal papers in other fields [1]. Hence, the health of conferences […]
As I review performance trends, I am struck by a consistent theme across many technologies: bandwidth improves much more quickly than latency. Here, I list a half-dozen performance milestones to document this observation, many reasons why it happens, a few ways to cope with it, a rule of thumb to quantify it, plus an example of how to design systems differently based on this observation.
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