A few facts and opinions and a couple of announcements, with a prediction on where the "Hadoop stack" might be going.Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | August 5, 2014 at 01:56 PM
This year ACM Multimedia had a new revision process that may be of interest for other ACM conferences. Let's review it and see also the best papers selection.Marco Bertini From BLOG@CACM | November 4, 2013 at 11:27 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 following question has polarized the computer-science community: Did Alan Turing's 1936 paper 'On Computable Numbers' influence the early history of computer...Edgar Daylight From BLOG@CACM | August 19, 2013 at 09:41 AM
Catastrophism and reliance on dubious studies have no place in serious discussions of software engineering.
Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | April 4, 2013 at 10:19 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
Daniel Spielman, Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Applied Science at Yale University, is the latest computer scientist to receive a...Jack Rosenberger From BLOG@CACM | October 2, 2012 at 10:25 AM
One of the most popular panels at Snowbird was "Publication Models in Computing Research: Is a Change Needed? Are We Ready for a Change?" Jack Rosenberger From BLOG@CACM | July 29, 2012 at 05:34 PM
It's the Turing Centenary Year. Why not plant a sunflower to celebrate? Manchester University, Manchester Science Festival and the Museum of Science and Industry...Judy Robertson From BLOG@CACM | April 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM
The scandal surrounding the recently published so-called empirical evidence for precognition has caused psychologists to reconsider the way they analyze their data...Judy Robertson From BLOG@CACM | March 20, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Judea Pearl, professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the winner of the 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award. Jack Rosenberger From ACM News | March 15, 2012 at 05:07 PM
Open problems will be presented in a joint session in the evening of the COLT/ICML overlap day. If you have a difficult, theoretically definable problem in machine...John Langford From BLOG@CACM | March 6, 2012 at 03:17 PM
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
Why do we, as researchers and practitioners, have this deep and abiding love of computing? Why do we compute? I suspect it is a deeper, more primal yearning, one...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | September 2, 2011 at 09:23 AM
Watts Humphrey left us a few weeks ago. His contributions to professional software engineering have been essential.Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | November 15, 2010 at 03:27 PM