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Using Bayes' Theorem, the correct answer to both the medical diagnosis problem and to the lion classification question, can be…
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The ubiquity of smartphones and their increasing ability to collect and transmit information will lead the way for the next advances in health monitoring and improvement...Ruben Ortega From BLOG@CACM | October 2, 2009 at 02:59 PM
How many electronic devices do you own? It is tempting to answer, “Just a handful,” but the truth is much more nuanced. Here’s a simple experiment that will (quite...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | September 25, 2009 at 12:27 AM
All too often, our technical curricula fail to focus on the human aspect of cross-domain collaboration. Technical skills are necessary, but not sufficient. One...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | July 31, 2009 at 12:54 AM
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
A call to the computer science community for what a research agenda might look like for the role of information and communications technologies in energy, the environment...Jeannette M. Wing From BLOG@CACM | June 7, 2009 at 09:11 AM
Webopedia defines robotics as: The field of computer science and engineering concerned with creating robots, devices that can move and react to sensory input. Robotics...Carlos Brewer From BLOG@CACM | May 20, 2009 at 09:59 AM
The challenge of computing education today is convincing students that not every application is done and available for download.
Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | April 18, 2009 at 09:41 AM
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...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | March 29, 2009 at 10:38 AM
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