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Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based
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If you started deploying software much more frequently, how would it change your software development?Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | September 10, 2009 at 09:21 AM
Increasingly, CS departments are moving to a programming language monoculture--it's C or C-derived languages throughout the curriculum. What are we losing out...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | August 18, 2009 at 02:54 PM
Relational database management systems (DBMSs) have been remarkably successful in capturing the DBMS marketplace. To a first approximation they are “the only game...Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | June 30, 2009 at 11:56 AM
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...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | June 9, 2009 at 10:21 AM
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...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | May 7, 2009 at 02:06 AM
Evolution or revolution, it’s the persistent question. Can we build reliable esascale systems from extrapolations of current technology or will new approaches be...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | April 11, 2009 at 07:51 PM
Someone may win the one million dollar Netflix Prize soon. Will the winning algorithm produce movie recommendations that people like?Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | March 24, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Quite a few scientists who deal with the processing and storage of large amounts of data are unhappy with relational DBMSs. Here are several reasons why—and a possible...Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | March 11, 2009 at 11:47 AM
I recently saw a Google Android phone at HotMobile 2009 and was intrigued by the drawing-based authentication mechanism built in. Basically, there's a 3x3 grid...Jason Hong From BLOG@CACM | March 5, 2009 at 02:43 PM