In the NIPS experiment, 10% of papers submitted to the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation went through its review process twice, with results compared...John Langford From BLOG@CACM | January 8, 2015 at 10:38 AM
The notion of putting all one's data into a "data lake" to encourage employees to run analytics has a serious flaw.
Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | December 22, 2014 at 04:10 PM
One of the themes at SC14 was the tension between developing programs that run fast vs. the time required by humans to develop and maintain fast-running programs...Joel C. Adams From BLOG@CACM | December 1, 2014 at 04:47 PM
Miraikan in Tokyo showcases Japanese technologies and challenges visitors to think how humans can improve their quality of life while mitigating risks.
Mei Kobayashi From BLOG@CACM | November 26, 2014 at 08:02 AM
There's not much evidence for a 10x programming productivity gap, but it doesn't matter from an education perspective. Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | November 17, 2014 at 08:55 AM
Modern robots are no longer just about hardware. Software algorithms play an essential role in bringing life-like movements to industrial robots and humanoids.
...Mei Kobayashi From BLOG@CACM | October 28, 2014 at 01:34 AM
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
Eight of the top 10 CS departments in the U.S., and ~70% of the top 40, teach Python in introductory courses.
Philip Guo From BLOG@CACM | July 7, 2014 at 04:20 PM
One of the most dazzling changes to the software development world in the past decade has been the spread of agile methods.
Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | May 18, 2014 at 11:18 AM
Often, you will be told programming languages do not matter much. It is a pretty general rule that people arguing language does not matter are simply trying...Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | April 15, 2014 at 08:58 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
I provide an overview of the data science workflow and highlight some challenges that data scientists face in their work.Philip Guo From BLOG@CACM | October 30, 2013 at 11:54 AM
Live coding is programming performance with generates music for an audience, often in a collaborative setting. It's a jam session on laptops with rich research...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | September 26, 2013 at 08:39 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