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Research and Advances May 1 2009

Reflections Today Prevent Failures Tomorrow

Process improvement requires understanding and measuring existing processes, analyzing the data to discover cost, quality, or schedule improvement opportunities, and introducing process changes to capture those opportunities.

Gary W. Brock, Denise J. McManus, and Joanne E. Hale

BLOG@CACM Apr 15 2009

Hello, Computer

Reflections on the present and future of speech-based interfaces.

Tessa Lau

News Apr 14 2009

Tech Mainstays Promote Machines That Fix Themselves

Technology companies are embracing self-healing technology, a computing strategy that could have a major impact on the data center and the desktop. IBM uses self-healing technologies in WebSphere, DB2, the Lotus Foundations product line, and its Power servers. And Sun Microsystems has designed predictive self-healing modules that enable Solaris to self-diagnose and mitigate problems.

Kirk L. Kroeker

BLOG@CACM Apr 9 2009

What To Do With Those Idle Cores?

So many processors on our desktops. Four cores, eight cores, soon we will see hundreds of cores. Almost all of them are going to be idle most of the time. If it is nearly free to use those idle cores, what work could we find for them that might be worthwhile?

Greg Linden

News Apr 1 2009

Learning More About Active Learning

Active learning algorithms are producing substantial savings in label complexity over passive learning approaches.

Graeme Stemp-Morlock

Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. student Steve Hanneke

News Apr 1 2009

Our Sentiments, Exactly

With sentiment analysis algorithms, companies can identify and assess the wide variety of opinions found online and create computational models of human opinion.

Alex Wright

an example of sentiment analysis of the Volkswagon Golf

News Apr 1 2009

Virtual Colonoscopies

Doctors are saving lives with virtual, 3D exams that are less invasive than a conventional optical colonoscopy.

David Essex

screenshot of a user interface for virtual colonoscopy

Research and Advances Apr 1 2009

Technical Perspective: Disk Array Models For Automating Storage Management

Large disk arrays are everywhere. When we shop at an Internet retailer, the product and account data come from a disk array in a data center. Our email, banking, payroll, insurance, and tax data all reside on disk arrays.

Arif Merchant

Research and Advances Apr 1 2009

Relative Fitness Modeling

Relative fitness is a new approach to modeling the performance of storage devices. In contrast to a conventional model, which predicts the performance of an application's I/O on a given device, a relative fitness model predicts performance differences between devices.

Research and Advances Apr 1 2009

Object Language and Impression Management

What does object language communicate about IT professionals? Can the messages conveyed by object language be used to offset the stereotypical image of a "computer geek?"

Kevin P. Scheibe, James C. McElroy, and Paula C. Morrow

Research and Advances Apr 1 2009

Technical Opinion: Online Auctions Hidden Metrics

The number of online auctions that don't result in valid transactions is astonishing, which leads us to call for a better understanding about unsuccessful auctions. Why are there so many of them and what can be done about it?

Paulo Goes, Yanbin Tu, and Y. Alex Tung

BLOG@CACM Mar 29 2009

The Great Electronic Brain and the Rhetoric of Recruitment

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 recruit more people to computing -- bold, noble, presumptuous, audacious possibilities.

Mark Guzdial

BLOG@CACM Mar 24 2009

What Is a Good Recommendation Algorithm?

Someone may win the one million dollar Netflix Prize soon. Will the winning algorithm produce movie recommendations that people like?

Greg Linden

BLOG@CACM Mar 4 2009

Three Misconceptions About Human-Computer Interaction

Three misconceptions about the field of human-computer interaction, as observed by an AI researcher turned HCI researcher in a large corporate research lab

Tessa Lau

Opinion Mar 1 2009

Children’s Magic Won’t Deliver the Semantic Web

To explain the nature of "Ontologies and the Semantic Web" (Dec. 2008), Ian Horrocks, a leading figure behind the theory and practice of Description Logics, employed analogous characters and language of the fictional Harry Potter children's novels.

CACM Staff

News Mar 1 2009

A Difficult, Unforgettable Idea

On the 40th anniversary of Douglas C. Engelbart's "The Mother of All Demos," computer scientists discuss the event's influence — and imagine what could have been.

Karen A. Frenkel

Opinion Mar 1 2009

An Interview With C.A.R. Hoare

C.A.R. Hoare, developer of the Quicksort algorithm and a lifelong contributor to the theory and design of programming languages, discusses the practical application of his theoretical ideas.

Len Shustek and C. A. R. Hoare

Practice Mar 1 2009

Better Scripts, Better Games

Smarter, more powerful scripting languages will improve game performance while making gameplay development more efficient.

Walker White, Christoph Koch, Johannes Gehrke, and Alan Demers

Opinion Mar 1 2009

Future Tense: Radical Evolution

In 1913, the U.S. Government prosecuted Lee De Forest for telling investors that RCA would soon be able to transmit the human voice across the Atlantic. What similarly preposterous claims are enabled by today's technology?

Joel Garreau

Research and Advances Mar 1 2009

Evaluating semantic similarity of concepts is a problem that has been extensively investigated in the literature in different areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Databases, and Software Engineering. Currently, it is growing in importance in different settings.

Anna Formica

News Feb 1 2009

Photography’s Bright Future

Researchers working in computational photography are using computer vision, computer graphics, and applied optics to bring a vast array of new capabilities to digital cameras.

Kirk L. Kroeker

camera mechanism designed to enhance depth of field

News Feb 1 2009

Making Sense of Sensors

Researchers are recognizing the potential of position sensors to help them overcome the limitations of traditional user interfaces.

Alex Wright

Johnny Chung Lee at Creativity World Forum 2008

News Feb 1 2009

SIGGRAPH Debuts in Asia

ACM's premier computer graphics conference hosts its first-ever graphics event in Asia, with a more global focus.

Kirk L. Kroeker

SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 conference in Singapore

Practice Feb 1 2009

Parallel Programming with Transactional Memory

While still primarily a research project, transactional memory shows promise for making parallel programming easier.

Ulrich Drepper

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