Duy-Loan Le Keynote at Grace Hopper Conference
Duy-Loan Le gave an inspiring keynote talk to open the Grace Hopper Conference
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Dancing with Hundreds of Technical Women at Grace Hopper
When I tell someone about the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, I start by explaining the dance parties. I tell them, "You wouldn't think that an all-female dance would be fun… but you'd be wrong. There's nothing like dancing with hundreds of technical women who let loose because there's nobody around to feel stupid in front of."
Opening Session of Grace Hopper Conference 2010
Some comments about the official opening of the Grace Hopper conference, including the new TechWomen Initiative and CS Ed Week.
In Search of Database Consistency
Michael Stonebraker discusses the implications of the CAP theorem on database management system applications that span multiple processing sites.
On Wednesday I began GHC 2010 by attending a gathering of people who are planning regional celebrations of women in computing.
Why Enterprises Are Uninterested in NoSQL
Here's my two cents worth on why an estimated 61% of enterprise users are either ignorant about or uninterested in NoSQL.
The Impact of the Grace Hopper Celebration
This year's edition of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is officially underway, and you can almost taste the excitement. Last night I had the opportunity to speak with an external evaluator about my experiences with the conference in an effort to determine what kind of impact it really has. I quite enjoyed the opportunity to reflect on my role this year and the previous two years I’ve attended.
The Importance of Quest to Learn
Why we need more educational projects like Quest To Learn, a New York program in which children's learning is based around game playing and design.
I told three stories at PCAST — The Google Story, Model Checking, and Machine Learning — as a way to illustrate the importance of sustained federal funding of basic research in computer science, the rapid pace of innovation in our field, and the deep scientific contributions we offer besides our obvious technological ones.
Can the U.S. Afford Universities Focusing on Research Over Teaching?
The American University system is increasingly turning toward research and away from teaching. The result is higher costs, and we can get quality education without the research programs.
Tell Me a Story: Join the Effort to Collect Teacher Stories
Sally Fincher wants your stories about being a teacher, every month for a year, to figure out how to improve teaching and learning.
Why Do the U.K. and Sweden Take Computing Education Research More Seriously Than the U.S.?
The UK and Sweden are establishing research centers on Computing Education. Where's the USA?
Old Geeks Never Die, They Just Get Grumpier
With age comes wisdom, or so they say. But when we geeks age, does it make us wiser or just grumpier?
At the most recent Snowbird conference, there was a plenary session during which the panelists and audience discussed the peer review processes in computing research, especially as they pertain to a related debate on conferences versus journals. It’s good to go back to first principles to see why peer review matters, to inform how we then would think about process.
You want to be the first person to design a successful, transistorized computer system, not the last person to design vacuum tube computer. Any designer's challenge is to pick the right technologies at the right time, recognizing when inflection points — maturing, disruptive technologies — are near.
Mind Meld in Group Decision Making
Social computing remains a hot research topic, and basic research on understanding group decision making and conditions under which crowdsourcing can lead to advantages is sparse. Here is one recent result on how to combine perceptual evidence from multiple people to make better decisions.
Expanding CS Education; Improving Software Development
Ed H. Chi writes about the social Web's impact on CS education. Ruben Ortega discusses software and test-driven development.
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.
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.
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.
A Tale of A Serious Attempt At P≠NP
This is a discussion of the recent claimed proof that P≠NP by Vinay Deolalikar.
How to Attend an Academic Conference
Tips on attending academic conferences for young CS researchers
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?
Better Game Playing Using Parallel Algorithms
Innovations in playing the game "Go" using Monte Carlo Tree Search and parallel algorithms.
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