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Research and Advances May 1 2013

Technical Perspective: The Ray-Tracing Engine That Could

It has been an open question whether it is possible to build GPU-targeted high-performance software systems that are themselves programmable. "GPU Ray Tracing" shows how to achieve both programmability and high performance in such a system.

Matt Pharr

Research and Advances Apr 1 2013

Discriminative Learning with Latent Variables For Cluttered Indoor Scene Understanding

We address the problem of understanding an indoor scene from a single image in terms of recovering the room geometry (floor, ceiling, and walls) and furniture layout.

Huayan Wang, Stephen Gould, and Daphne Roller

Research and Advances Apr 1 2013

Techniques and Applications For Sentiment Analysis

The main applications and challenges of one of the hottest research areas in computer science.

Ronen Feldman

Techniques and Applications for Sentiment Analysis, illustration

Opinion Apr 1 2013

A Robot’s Roots

I would like to add a bit of etymological history concerning the word "robot" to Vinton G. Cerf's President's Letter "What's a Robot?" (Jan. 2013).

CACM Staff

Research and Advances Apr 1 2013

Technical Perspective: Understanding Pictures of Rooms

The rich world is getting older, so we will see many efforts to build robots that can provide some in-home care for frail people. These robots will need computer programs that can see and understand rooms where people live.

David Forsyth

Practice Apr 1 2013

How Fast Is Your Website?

Website performance data has never been more readily available.

Patrick Meenan

News Apr 1 2013

Looking Back at Big Data

As computational tools open up new ways of understanding history, historians and computer scientists are working together to explore the possibilities.

Leah Hoffmann

News Apr 1 2013

Artificial Connections

Scientists at the Blue Brain Project are using supercomputers to simulate neural connections in a 3-D model of a slice of mammalian brain.

Nidhi Subbaraman

Research and Advances Apr 1 2013

Offline Management in Virtualized Environments

How to run virtual machines together with physical machines, especially when sharing computational resources.

Nishant Thorat, Arvind Raghavendran, and Nigel Groves

Research and Advances Mar 1 2013

Exploration and Mapping with Autonomous Robot Teams

The MAGIC 2010 robot competition showed how well multi-robot teams can work with human teams in urban search.

News Mar 1 2013

Rise of the Swarm

Guided by collective intelligence, teams of small, simple robots could soon accomplish amazing feats.

Gregory Mone

Practice Mar 1 2013

Hazy: Making It Easier to Build and Maintain Big-Data Analytics

Racing to unleash the full potential of big data with the latest statistical and machine-learning techniques.

Arun Kumar, Feng Niu, and Christopher Ré

Hazy, Making It Easier to Build and Maintain Big-Data Analytics, illustration

Practice Mar 1 2013

The Story of the Teapot in DHTML

It is easy to do amazing things, such as rendering the classic teapot in HTML and CSS.

Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer

Practice Mar 1 2013

Making the Mobile Web Faster

Mobile performance issues? Fix the back end, not just the client.

Kate Matsudaira

Making the Mobile Web Faster, illustration

Research and Advances Feb 1 2013

Symbolic Execution For Software Testing: Three Decades Later

The challenges — and great promise — of modern symbolic execution techniques, and the tools to help implement them.

Cristian Cadar and Koushik Sen

Symbolic Execution for Software Testing, illustration

News Feb 1 2013

A New Model For Healthcare

Computer modeling is radically redefining healthcare and epidemiology by providing new tools for understanding the impact of different intervention strategies.

Samuel Greengard

model of the spread of HIV in New York City

News Feb 1 2013

Life in Simulation

Computational models are tackling the complexity of biology, from single-celled microbes to human organs.

Neil Savage

News Feb 1 2013

Revving the Rover

The new Mars rover has attracted plenty of attention for its planetary gymnastics, but the big breakthroughs are under the hood.

Alex Wright

Practice Feb 1 2013

Thinking Methodically About Performance

The USE method addresses shortcomings in other commonly used methodologies.

Brendan Gregg

Thinking Methodically About Performance, illustration

Research and Advances Feb 1 2013

Power Challenges May End the Multicore Era

Tthe microprocessor industry has shifted to multicore scaling as its principal strategy for continuing performance growth. However, while transistor count increases continue, the per-transistor speed and energy efficiency improvements have slowed dramatically.

Opinion Feb 1 2013

Positioning ACM For an Open Access Future

The age of open access is upon us. Increasingly, the consensus of authors and their funding institutions is that the fruits of taxpayer-supported research should be freely available. This is a compelling argument and a noble goal. But, achieving open access is not easy.

Ronald F. Boisvert and Jack W. Davidson

Practice Feb 1 2013

A Decade of OS Access-Control Extensibility

Open source security foundations for mobile and embedded devices.

Robert N. M. Watson

Research and Advances Feb 1 2013

Technical Perspective: Is Dark Silicon Real?

The microprocessor chip R&D community has been well aware of the so-called "power wall" challenge for over a decade. The following work by Esmaeilzadeh et al. is a landmark paper that opens our eyes to the unrelenting power challenge we face in the multicore era.

Pradip Bose

BLOG@CACM Jan 23 2013

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Don't miss out on the chance to nominate someone for an Athena Award from ACM-W.

Valerie Barr

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