What is the best way to organize researchers into a company? An independent research lab? Mixing researchers in with product teams? Or not hiring researchers...Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | August 12, 2010 at 06:46 PM
Since the beginning of software industry, developers have produced updates for their products on a regular basis. How do these updates affect the software itself...Carlos Brewer From BLOG@CACM | August 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM
An iconic cartoon by Peter Steiner, which appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, captured the nature of the nascent Internet. It shows a dog seated at a computer,...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | August 8, 2010 at 05:04 PM
Two Congressman introduced two pieces of legislation -- The Computer Science Education Act and the Computer Science Education Week Resolution -- to offer reforms...Cameron Wilson From BLOG@CACM | August 3, 2010 at 12:43 PM
As computational science and engineering becomes more common, it becomes important to ask what should all scientists and engineers know about computer science to...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | July 27, 2010 at 12:18 PM
The new draft framework from the National Research Council on "science, engineering, and technology" makes no mention of computer science.Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | July 27, 2010 at 09:40 AM
Why is good design so hard to accomplish for organizations? People are coming to the realization that design really matters, but it's not that they don't want to...Jason Hong From BLOG@CACM | July 21, 2010 at 09:50 AM
These “grand challenges” of systems biology encompass almost every aspect of modern computing, from numerical and symbolic methods through data management and analytics...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | July 17, 2010 at 09:40 AM
In the Internet era, with cell phones, PDAs, and other technologies, humans are more and more connected to each other. All day you can see people walking and at...Carlos Brewer From BLOG@CACM | July 12, 2010 at 09:48 AM
Big web applications are hungry for RAM. They want lots of low power RAM. And they want little else.Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | July 9, 2010 at 03:42 PM
Why is there so little research into interface design for new mothers? Interface designers—hear my cry! Here are some pointers for designing interfaces for mothers...Judy Robertson From BLOG@CACM | July 6, 2010 at 10:53 AM
A quick look at this special event in Colombia at which people breathe, eat, and sweat technology.Carlos Brewer From BLOG@CACM | July 1, 2010 at 09:53 AM
The difficulty in creating privacy controls in online health communities represents the struggle between hope and fear.Ruben Ortega From BLOG@CACM | June 24, 2010 at 01:47 PM
To paraphrase Mr. Meyerson: A truly talented engineer is someone who, when his hand gets slammed in a doorway and is badly hurt, inserts his other hand in the doorway...Jack Rosenberger From BLOG@CACM | June 16, 2010 at 11:41 PM
One of the goals of this years Computers Freedom and Privacy conference is to ask the question, "Can we be 'smart' and private?" Wednesday's panel onIntellegent...Katy Nelson From BLOG@CACM | June 16, 2010 at 10:11 AM
The Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP) continued Tuesday afternoon with a panel called Activism and Social Networking: Advocating for Privacy. Panelists...Katy Nelson From BLOG@CACM | June 15, 2010 at 10:03 PM