I provide an overview of the data science workflow and highlight some challenges that data scientists face in their work.Philip Guo From BLOG@CACM | October 30, 2013 at 11:54 AM
ACM Multimedia, the foremost conference on multimedia, has started in Barcelona (Spain). Let's see what are some highlights of the first day.Marco Bertini From BLOG@CACM | October 24, 2013 at 10:37 AM
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2013 is an annual event where 200 young researchers get to meet with and learn from 40 Turing Award, Fields Medal, Abel Prize...Vijay Ganesh From BLOG@CACM | September 24, 2013 at 12:07 PM
The global race is on to build ever-faster supercomputers, fueled by a combination of scientific and engineering needs to simulate phenomena with greater resolution...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | July 18, 2013 at 09:38 AM
I describe software incompatibility problems caused by fragmentation in Linux-based operating systems and present one potential solution.Philip Guo From BLOG@CACM | May 30, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Extraordinary parallelism, unprecedented data locality and adaptive resilience: these are daunting architecture, system software and application challenges for...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | March 5, 2013 at 09:20 AM
ESEC-FSE 2013 (in Saint Petersburg,, 18-26 August) is the place to be for software engineering in 2013.Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | January 22, 2013 at 09:15 AM
We need a concord and strategic research investment plan that recognizes the shared importance of HPC and big data. Both warrant investments in basic research,...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | November 6, 2012 at 10:50 AM
Intermittent Net: The Importance of Distributed Thinking in Mobile/Cloud Application Development (and Usage)
George K. Thiruvathukal From BLOG@CACM | October 3, 2012 at 11:50 AM
Computing research and advanced computing infrastructure–each is dependent on the other in a myriad of subtle and complex ways, yet each is profoundly different...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | September 26, 2012 at 02:29 PM
Progress in information technology over the past 20 years has dramatically changed our lives — in our daily routine, at play, and at work.
Jeannette M. Wing (with thanks to Erwin Gianchandani) From BLOG@CACM | March 26, 2012 at 11:42 AM
The theme of NITRD's 20th birthday symposium was to recognize that in just 20 years, computing research has made astounding progress and has had an astounding impact...Jeannette M. Wing From BLOG@CACM | March 26, 2012 at 10:57 AM
The Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy awards and the work of the recipients reflect the evolving interplay of technology, software, applications and algorithms in advancing...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | November 13, 2011 at 04:08 PM
The Grace Hopper Conference includes a Ph.D. Forum that showcases the research of current Ph.D. students, with the additional goal of providing support and mentoring...Valerie Barr From BLOG@CACM | November 12, 2011 at 11:31 AM
The contributions and personality of John McCarthy, one of the pioneers of computer science.
Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | October 28, 2011 at 09:57 AM
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,...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | October 8, 2011 at 01:33 PM
New SQL should be considered as an alternative to NoSQL or Old SQL for New OLTP applications. If New OLTP is as big a market as I foresee, we will see many more...Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | June 16, 2011 at 09:43 AM
“Break through!” clamor the funding agencies, which scorn “incremental” research. Sure, every human being needs hype; in truth, though, almost all research—good...Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | June 13, 2011 at 02:46 AM