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Aug 26 2010

My Top 10 Assertions About Data Warehouses

Data warehouses, business intelligence, business analytics, and complex analytics are the subject of increasingly intense marketing wars, seemingly accelerated by Oracle’s recent introduction of the Exadata appliance. Here is my spin on the situation, organized as my top 10 assertions about this topic.

Michael Stonebraker

Data and Information

Aug 23 2010

Why Is Great Design So Hard (Part Two)?

Previously, I asked the question of why great design is so hard to integrate in organizations. In this article, I take a look at how Apple does design, and what we can learn from it.

Jason Hong

Computing Applications

Aug 23 2010

The First ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC)

Earlier this summer the first ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing was held in Indianapolis, Indiana. With three stellar keynotes and an exceptional program, the inaugural symposium was a success. Next year's SoCC will be co-located with SOSP in Portugal, and the CFP is already up at http://socc2011.gsd.inesc-id.pt/call-for-papers.

Jeff Hammerbacher

Computing Applications

Aug 15 2010

A Tale of A Serious Attempt At P≠NP

This is a discussion of the recent claimed proof that P≠NP by Vinay Deolalikar.

Richard J. Lipton

Computing Profession

Aug 13 2010

How to Attend an Academic Conference

Tips on attending academic conferences for young CS researchers

Tessa Lau

Education

Aug 12 2010

Research in the Wild: Making Research Work in Industry

What is the best way to organize researchers into a company? An independent research lab? Mixing researchers in with product teams? Or not hiring researchers at all?

Greg Linden

Computing Profession

Aug 11 2010

Better Game Playing Using Parallel Algorithms

Innovations in playing the game "Go" using Monte Carlo Tree Search and parallel algorithms.

Ruben Ortega

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Aug 9 2010

On Software Updates and Version Changes

Since the beginning of software industry, developers have produced updates for their products on a regular basis. How do these updates affect the software itself and the end user?

Carlos Brewer

Computing Applications

Drummond Ltd. Systems engineer Carlos A. Brewer R.

Aug 8 2010

Remembering Internet Dogs

An iconic cartoon by Peter Steiner, which appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, captured the nature of the nascent Internet. It shows a dog seated at a computer, remarking to a second dog on the floor that, “On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog.”

Daniel Reed

Computing Applications

Aug 3 2010

CS Education Gets Congressional Attention

Two Congressman introduced two pieces of legislation -- The Computer Science Education Act and the Computer Science Education Week Resolution -- to offer reforms for computer science education and bring attention to the field and its issues.

Cameron Wilson

Education

Aug 3 2010

Evaluating the Success of Mentoring Programs

Can HCI evaluation methods help to assess the effectiveness of mentoring programs for women?

Tessa Lau

Education

Aug 1 2010

The War Against Spam; and More

Greg Linden asks if spammers have been defeated; Michael Bernstein discusses Clay Shirky's keynote speech at CSCW 2010; and Erika S. Poole writes about how the digital world can help parents cope with the death of a child.

Greg Linden, Michael Bernstein, and Erika Shehan Poole

Computing Applications

Jul 27 2010

What Do Scientists and Engineers Need to Know About Computer Science?

As computational science and engineering becomes more common, it becomes important to ask what should all scientists and engineers know about computer science to be effective.

Mark Guzdial

Education

Jul 27 2010

Computer Science Left out of National Academies Report

The new draft framework from the National Research Council on "science, engineering, and technology" makes no mention of computer science.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Jul 21 2010

Why Is Great Design So Hard?

Why is good design so hard to accomplish for organizations? People are coming to the realization that design really matters, but it's not that they don't want to follow suit, it seems that they are not able to.

Jason Hong

Computing Applications

Jul 17 2010

In Vivo, In Vitro, In Silico

These “grand challenges” of systems biology encompass almost every aspect of modern computing, from numerical and symbolic methods through data management and analytics to extraordinarily high-performance computing platforms.

Daniel Reed

Architecture and Hardware

Jul 12 2010

A Connected Life

In the Internet era, with cell phones, PDAs, and other technologies, humans are more and more connected to each other. All day you can see people walking and at the same time chatting via cell phone. What happens to people that lives connected? What if they simply unplug from the network?

Carlos Brewer

Computing Applications

Jul 9 2010

Web Applications Crave Memory

Big web applications are hungry for RAM. They want lots of low power RAM. And they want little else.

Greg Linden

Architecture and Hardware

Jul 6 2010

Interface Design For New Mothers

Why is there so little research into interface design for new mothers? Interface designers—hear my cry! Here are some pointers for designing interfaces for mothers and babies.

Judy Robertson

Computing Profession

Jul 1 2010

2010 Edition of Campus Party Colombia

A quick look at this special event in Colombia at which people breathe, eat, and sweat technology.

Carlos Brewer

Computing Profession

Jul 1 2010

Software Development and Crunch Time; and More

For software developers, crunch time is a period prior to a major product milestone when team members are asked to put in extra effort to get a product finished by a specific delivery date. Why do developers put up with it?

Ruben Ortega, Mark Guzdial, and Daniel Reed

Computing Applications

Jun 24 2010

Hope vs. Fear: Privacy Challenges in Online Health Communities

The difficulty in creating privacy controls in online health communities represents the struggle between hope and fear.

Ruben Ortega

Computing Applications

Jun 17 2010

Valuing High School Computing Teachers

Thoughts on why high school computing teachers are so important and how we can help them.

Judy Robertson

Education

Jun 16 2010

The Future of Electronic Design Automation, According to IBM

To paraphrase Mr. Meyerson: A truly talented engineer is someone who, when his hand gets slammed in a doorway and is badly hurt, inserts his other hand in the doorway and slams the door shut on it, so he can get a second set of data.

Jack Rosenberger

Architecture and Hardware

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