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December 2013 - Vol. 56 No. 12
Features
Opinion From the president
I have been thinking about the implications of the increasing number of programmable devices and appliances that surround us. For one thing, they all require software to function. Who will write all that software?
Opinion Letters to the Editor
James Geller raised important questions in his letter to the editor "Beware BYOD" (Sept. 2013) but mixed learning and assessment with the practicalities of supporting multiple devices.
The Lure of Live Coding; The Attraction of Small Data
Mark Guzdial ponders a new set of research questions, while Valerie Barr considers the utility of one person's data.
Life Points the Way to a New Template For Chipmaking
While significant obstacles remain, researchers are optimistic about using DNA to guide graphene into complex circuit shapes on silicon.
Lensless cameras and other advances in digital imaging, computational optics, signal processing, and big data are transforming how we think about photography.
CS Enrollments Rise . . . at the Expense of the Humanities?
A growing proportion of U.S. college students are earning degrees in computer and information sciences, surprising some in academia.
Opinion Emerging markets
Information Technology Impact Sourcing
New ways to contract IT work to base-of-the-pyramid suppliers.
Opinion Historical reflections
Patrick Blackett: Providing 'White Heat' to the British Computing Revolution
Reflections on a Nobel Prize-winning physicist's early contributions to computing.
Opinion The profession of IT
Design thinking is the newest fashion for finding better solutions to problems. Combining it with computational thinking offers some real possibilities for improving software design.
Opinion Kode Vicious
A Lesson in Resource Management
Waste not memory, want not memory — unless it doesn't matter.
Opinion Broadening participation
Bringing Young Women Into Computing Through the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Program
A program to encourage and support girls and women in pursuing their computer science interests.
Opinion Viewpoint
Supplementing the classroom experience with small private online courses.
The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability
Interfacing between languages is becoming more important
The increasing significance of intermediate representations in compilers.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Big data promises automated actionable knowledge creation and predictive models for use by both humans and computers.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Legal Aspects of Interface Accessibility in the U.S.
Accessible information technology is not just good design and a clever way to win new users, it is the law.
Research and Advances Review articles
Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball
A broader class of consistency guarantees can, and perhaps should, be offered to clients that read shared data.
Research and Advances Review articles
A Survey of Mobility in Information-Centric Networks
'Where's' in a name?
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: The Cleanest Garbage Collection
In quite a tour de force, the authors of the following paper have built a provably correct real-time garbage collector for reconfigurable hardware (field programmable gate arrays).
Research and Advances Research highlights
And Then There Were None: A Stall-Free Real-Time Garbage Collector For Reconfigurable Hardware
We present a garbage collector synthesized directly to hardware, capable of collecting a heap of uniform objects completely concurrently. These heaps are composed entirely of objects of a fixed shape. Thus, the size of the data fields and the location of pointers of each object are fixed.
Opinion Last byte
Puzzled: Solutions and Sources
Last month (November 2013) we posted three tricky puzzles concerning coin flipping. Here, we offer solutions to all three. How did you do?
Opinion Last byte
Peter G. Neumann views computers and their related issues holistically.
