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The African Enigma: Who Knows More?
Tally sticks and notched bones are among the oldest digital data carriers.
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Showcasing European Computer Science
Retrospective on the 2009 European Computer Science Summit and the launch of ACM Europe
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Sc09 Reflections: The Need For Speed
SC09 (aka the “Supercomputing Conference”) was held during the week of November 16. The conference set an attendance record this year – roughly 10,000 attendees...
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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...
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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?
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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 :...
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Developing Software For the Outer Space
Making good software is hard. Making software that has to work without defects on a different planet is extremely hard. Today Gerard Holzmann explained how NASA...
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The Power of Abstraction--Barbara Liskov's Oopsla Keynote
Barbara Liskov is the Turing Award winner for 2008 for her pioneering work in programming languages. She was the keynote speaker in OOPSLA 2009 and talked about...
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Taming the Clouds at Oopsla
OOPSLA 2009 workshops started yesterday (Sunday Oct 25th) and featured two workshops on Cloud Computing. The presence of a diverse audience led to many interesting...
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Cray and Fernbach Award Winners
This year, I have the honor and privilege to chair the selection committee for the Seymour Cray and Sidney Fernbach awards, which recognize outstanding contributions...
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The Rise of Empirical Software Engineering (i): the Good News
Empirical software engineering papers, at places like the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), used to be terrible. There were exceptions, of...
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Âbiquity
Technology and information are ominpresent in Tokyo, but nobody seems to notice; a look at the future of ultra-integrated high technology.
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The Fallacy of Rankings
The list of the world's fastest computers will soon be announced. As always, we can expect the latest announcement to garner interest among the technological community...
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Hpc: Making a Small Fortune
There is an old joke in the high-performance computing community that begins with a question, “How do you make a small fortune in high-performance computing?” There...
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High-Performance Computing: Where
By definition, the raison d’être for high-performance computing is high performance, but floating point operations per second (FLOPS) need not be the only measure...
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When Petascale Is Just Too Slow
Evolution or revolution, it’s the persistent question. Can we build reliable esascale systems from extrapolations of current technology or will new approaches be...
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What To Do With Those Idle Cores?
So many processors on our desktops. Four cores, eight cores, soon we will see hundreds of cores. Almost all of them are going to be idle most of the time. If...
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The Great Electronic Brain and the Rhetoric of Recruitment
We rarely talk about computers as "Electronic Brains" or "Thinking Machines." That seems presumptuous or audacious today. Maybe that's exactly what we need to...
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Connecting the Two Ends: Mobile Clouds
In 1959, the colorful and brilliant physicist, Richard Feynman, gave a seminal lecture to the American Physical Society entitled, "There's Plenty of Room at...
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