Technical Perspective: Not Just a Matrix Laboratory Anymore
Mathematics is not difficult to find in Chebfun, the subject of "Computing Numerically with Functions Instead of Numbers."
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Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon
The Dissent system aims for a quantifiably secure, collective approach to anonymous communication online.
Framing Sustainability as a Property of Software Quality
This framework addresses the environmental dimension of software performance, as applied here by a paper mill and a car-sharing service.
Discovering Genes Involved in Disease and the Mystery of Missing Heritability
The challenge of missing heritability offers great contribution options for computer scientists.
Computing Numerically with Functions Instead of Numbers
We present the Chebfun system for numerical computation with functions, which is based on a key idea: an analogy of floating-point arithmetic for functions rather than numbers.
Guided Exploration of Physically Valid Shapes For Furniture Design
The authors propose an interactive design framework for the efficient and intuitive exploration of geometrically and physically valid shapes.
Commonsense Reasoning and Commonsense Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence
AI has seen great advances of many kinds recently, but there is one critical area where progress has been extremely slow: ordinary commonsense.
Dan Boneh on pairing-based cryptography, multilinear maps, and how an 1,800-year-old "intellectual curiosity" became the foundation of all secure network traffic.
Debugging High-Performance Computing Applications at Massive Scales
Dynamic analysis techniques help programmers find the root cause of bugs in large-scale parallel applications.
Trustworthy Hardware from Untrusted Components
This defense-in-depth approach uses static analysis and runtime mechanisms to detect and silence hardware backdoors.
On the Categorization of Scientific Citation Profiles in Computer Science
A new dynamic growth model reveals how citation networks evolve over time, pointing the way toward reformulated scientometrics.
Technical Perspective: A Woodworker’s Easy Fix
The authors of "Guided Exploration of Physically Valid Shapes for Furniture Design" have found a way to provide the user with instant feedback on how to fix unstable or toppling wooden panel constructions.
Technical Perspective: Corralling Crowd Power
"Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside," introduces an exciting vision of using crowd workers to power an interactive system — here, a word processor — in accomplishing complex cognitive tasks.
Challenges Deploying Complex Technologies in a Traditional Organization
The National Palace Museum in Taiwan had to partner with experienced cloud providers to deliver television-quality exhibits.
Network Science, Web Science, and Internet Science
Exploring three interdisciplinary areas and the extent to which they overlap. Are they all part of the same larger domain?
Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside
This paper introduces architectural and interaction patterns for integrating crowdsourced human contributions directly into user interfaces.
Programming the Quantum Future
The Quipper language offers a unified general-purpose programming framework for quantum computation.
Surveillance and Falsification Implications For Open Source Intelligence Investigations
Legitimacy of surveillance is crucial to safeguarding validity of OSINT data as a tool for law-enforcement agencies.
Passwords and the Evolution of Imperfect Authentication
Theory on passwords has lagged practice, where large providers use back-end smarts to survive with imperfect technology.
Exascale Computing and Big Data
Scientific discovery and engineering innovation requires unifying traditionally separated high-performance computing and big data analytics.
Using Rhetorical Structure in Sentiment Analysis
A deep, fine-grain analysis of rhetorical structure highlights crucial sentiment-carrying text segments.
Cache Efficient Functional Algorithms
We present a cost model for analyzing the memory efficiency of algorithms expressed in a simple functional language.
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