Boolean Satisfiability: Theory and Engineering
The Boolean Satisfiability Problem is a problem of central importance in computer science. At the same time, it is a paradigmatic constraint-satisfaction problem with…
March 2014 - Vol. 57 No. 3
Features
Opinion Letter from the President
If there are intelligent civilizations in our galaxy, why have we not yet detected any evidence of them? Noted science fiction writer David Brin has a particularly scary…
Opinion Letters to the Editor
Develop Research Culture in the Arab Middle East
The Arab Middle East needs a cultural revolution in terms of research, especially in computer science.
Capturing and Structuring Data Mined from the Web
Kate Matsudaira considers not only how to mine data from the Web, but what to do with it once you have it.
The first steps have been taken toward enabling a computer to perceive one's thoughts.
Capturing electricity from ambient RF transmissions can keep low-power applications off the grid.
Opinion Legally speaking
Considering the implications of the late-2013 ruling in favor of Google in the Authors Guild case.
Opinion Computing ethics
Why Software Engineering Courses Should Include Ethics Coverage
Encouraging students to become comfortable exercising ethical discernment in a professional context with their peers.
Opinion The profession of IT
A new report from Chile about improving economic competitiveness advances a novel interpretation of innovation. Timing is everything.
Opinion Broadening participation
The Impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Codifying human rights and inclusiveness in a technical context for people with disabilities.
Opinion Viewpoint
How to Build a Bad Research Center
Sharing lessons learned from experiences creating successful multidisciplinary research centers.
Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?
Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.
How can the expected interactions between caller and implementation be guaranteed?
Scaling Existing Lock-Based Applications with Lock Elision
Enabling existing lock-based programs to achieve performance benefits of nonblocking synchronization.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Making Parallel Programs Reliable with Stable Multithreading
Stable multithreading dramatically simplifies the interleaving behaviors of parallel programs, offering new hope for making parallel programming easier.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Using Targeted Conferences to Recruit Women Into Computer Science
To inspire women to major in CS, take them to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Big-Data Applications in the Government Sector
In the same way businesses use big data to pursue profits, governments use it to promote the public good.
Research and Advances Review articles
Methods for embedding secret data are more sophisticated than their ancient predecessors, but the basic principles remain unchanged.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Smartphone Security ‘Taint’ What It Used to Be
The TaintDroid project takes a runtime taint tracking approach toward analyzing Android apps.
Research and Advances Research highlights
TaintDroid: An Information Flow Tracking System For Real-Time Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones
Today's smartphone operating systems frequently fail to provide users with adequate control over and visibility into how third-party applications use their…
Opinion Last byte
Puzzled: Solutions and Sources
Last month (February 2014) we posted three games in which you were asked to pick a positive integer. The question in each was: What is the highest number you should think…
Opinion Last byte
Having helped develop Reduced Instruction Set Computing and Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks, David Patterson has set his sights on interdisciplinary research.
