Malvertisements are attempts to inject malware and scareware into advertisements, leveraging the reach that advertising networks have. This blog entry examines...Jason Hong From BLOG@CACM | May 11, 2010 at 10:38 AM
Brief discussion on how social networks are now the battlefield of political campaigns, death threats and more.Carlos Brewer From BLOG@CACM | May 6, 2010 at 01:44 PM
When a corporate, government, or university IT department of the 1970s debated an upgrade to its IBM S/370 mainframes, it is doubtful that the IT director was in...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | April 24, 2010 at 09:56 AM
Many countries have started to control access to information on Internet for their citizens, most famous case being China, but Latin America does not escape this...Carlos Brewer From BLOG@CACM | April 11, 2010 at 09:01 AM
The future of computers will be created by a conjunction of several key aspects of technology.Carlos Brewer From BLOG@CACM | March 13, 2010 at 10:27 AM
This post will give a summary of one paper each from sessions on Groupware Technologies, the experimental CSCW Horizons, and Everyday Healthcare.
Michael A. Oren From BLOG@CACM | February 9, 2010 at 09:52 AM
I suspect much of computing is still socially conditioned by its roots in computational paucity to recognize fully the true opportunity afforded by computational...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | February 8, 2010 at 09:33 AM
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...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | November 30, 2009 at 11:54 PM
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...E. Michael Maximilien From BLOG@CACM | November 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Do consumers want massively multi-core? Or would they rather have lower power consumption and better memory bandwidth? Are we building what people want?Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | November 5, 2009 at 08:36 PM
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 :...Ajith Ranabahu From BLOG@CACM | November 1, 2009 at 10:16 AM
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...Ajith Ranabahu From BLOG@CACM | October 28, 2009 at 01:40 PM
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...Ajith Ranabahu From BLOG@CACM | October 27, 2009 at 10:13 AM
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...Ajith Ranabahu From BLOG@CACM | October 26, 2009 at 05:26 PM
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...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | October 25, 2009 at 09:34 PM
Empirical software engineering papers, at places like the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), used to be terrible. There were exceptions, of...Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | October 19, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Technology and information are ominpresent in Tokyo, but nobody seems to notice; a look at the future of ultra-integrated high technology.
Michael Conover From BLOG@CACM | August 20, 2009 at 09:25 AM