It’s a nascent technological mecca that defies description, or calculation, and sometimes even logic. It’s a potential gold mine to many high-tech global investors; it’s an economic tinderbox to just as many others. Competitive strategies abound there, but rarely intersect. It’s a consumer marketplace measured in billions; indeed, its sheer geographical vastness makes it impossible […]
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An article in today’s paper describes Ray Kurzweil’s quest for longevity, noting the distinguished computer scientist’s confidence in the flourishing partnership of medical science and computer science for making his personal ambition a reality. Although the road he’s taken is uncharted—and seriously unconventional—it recognizes the unprecedented potential of recent advancements in medical tools that not […]
We open the new year looking toward the future—that is, future technologists, artists, farmers, builders, teachers, scientists, thinkers, leaders, inventors. For regardless of the path today’s young people eventually choose, all will be guided by an emerging array of learning tools and technologies designed to shape their education, their view of the world, and what […]
Top 10 Downloads from Acm’s Digital Library
Communications of the ACM Volume 47, Number 12 (2004), Pages 21-22 Hot links: Top 10 Downloads from ACM’s Digital Library Diane Crawford Table of Contents Tables Back to Top Tables Table. The Top 10 Most Popular Papers from ACM’s Refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings Downloaded in September 2004 Table. The 10 Most Popular Courses and […]
We were happy to see the special section on voting systems (Oct. 2004). However, like most of the recent interest in such systems in both research centers and in the popular press, it largely ignored usability. This represents a serious blind spot, especially since user interface design (as in the butterfly ballot), rather than security, […]
For a vast number of netizens, the great attraction of the Internet is not in the discovery, but in being discovered. The Net provides a worldwide audience to each and every user—a truth as seductive as it is powerful and plentiful. Certainly the phenomenon of Weblogs, or blogging, reflects this fact. The ability the Net […]
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Communications of the ACM Volume 47, Number 11 (2004), Pages 21-22 Hot links: Top 10 downloads from ACM’s portal Diane Crawford Table of Contents Tables Back to Top Tables Table. The Top 10 Most Popular Papers from ACM’s Refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings Downloaded in August 2004 Table. THe 10 Most Popular Courses and Books […]
Although the Viewpoint by Peter Freeman and David Hart ("A Science of Design for Software-Intensive Systems," Aug. 2004) explored the idea that design must account for such factors as style and innovation, it didn’t say that the underlying tools of computer science and engineering, on which design is based, are unstable, and that this is […]
It’s a humbling fact that the potential to unravel the mysteries of a single microscopic molecule can take every FLOPS of computational power in existence—and then some. Even more humbling is that it can happen only because of this extreme level of computational power, which allows scientists to visualize and comprehend vast volumes of biological […]
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