Where Is the Science in Computer Science?
The term "computer science" raises expectations, at least to my mind, of an ability to define models and to make predictions about the behavior of computers and computing systems.
October 2012 - Vol. 55 No. 10
Features
Opinion Letters to the Editor
When Harm to Conference Reputation Is Self-Inflicted
Citing conferences sponsored by the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, Moshe Y. Vardi's Editor's Letter "Predatory Scholarly Publishing" (July 2012) reminded me of my own participation in the WSEAS flagship summer conference several years ago.
Online Privacy; Replicating Research Results
Daniel Reed offers three ideas about the future of personal online information management. Ed H. Chi writes about replication of experiments and how experiments are often the beginning, rather than the end, of a scientific inquiry.
With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions.
Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.
Computer Science and the Three Rs
A growing sense of crisis prevails as computer science searches for its place in the K--12 curriculum.
Opinion Technology strategy and management
Reflecting on the Facebook IPO
Exploring some factors that reflect a company's worth.
Opinion The business of software
Balancing two extremes in project estimation.
Opinion Inside risks
Short-term thinking is the enemy of the long-term future.
Opinion Viewpoint
Computing as If Infrastructure Mattered
Understanding the technical and social fundamentals of the computing infrastructure is essential in the continuously evolving technological realm.
Opinion Viewpoint
Promoting a clock-free paradigm that fits everything learned about programming since Turing.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Experiments in Social Computation
Human subjects perform a computationally wide range of tasks from only local, networked interactions.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Internet voting is unachievable for the foreseeable future and therefore not inevitable. View a video of Barbara Simons entitled "Internet Voting: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come."
Research and Advances Review articles
A Few Useful Things to Know About Machine Learning
Tapping into the "folk knowledge" needed to advance machine learning applications.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: A High-Dimensional Surprise
High-dimensional space is a counterintuitive place, where natural geometric intuitions from the familiar three-dimensional world may lead us badly astray.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Spherical Cubes: Optimal Foams from Computational Hardness Amplification
Foam problems are about how to best partition space into bubbles of minimal surface area. We investigate the case where one unit-volume bubble is required to tile d-dimensional space in a periodic fashion according to the standard, cubical lattice.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Graph Embeddings and Linear Equations
Algorithmic advances can come from the most unexpected places. The following paper describes an emerging approach to solving linear systems of equations that relies heavily on techniques from graph theory.
Research and Advances Research highlights
A Fast Solver For a Class of Linear Systems
The solution of linear systems is a problem of fundamental theoretical importance but also one with a myriad of applications in numerical mathematics, engineering, and science.
Opinion Last byte
Future Tense: Fermi’s Paradox and the End of the Universe
From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be. How to colonize the galaxy, one electron spin state at a time.
