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- Barbara Liskov wins 2008 Turing Award
- I don't tend to report or blog much about various scientific awards that get handed out over the year. However, this one is worth a quick note since Barbara Liskov co-wrote one of the canonical college texts on programming Abstraction and Specification in Program Development and has had a...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Dame Wendy Hall talks about Web Science
- I must admit that I've tended to be rather sceptical about the whole topic of 'Web Science,' as proposed by the University of Southampton and MIT through their shared Web Science Research Initiative WSRI. My initial view was that we really don't need yet another academic subject...
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Project:Possibility coders hack for the disabled
- It's pretty clear now that the short-term future of technology is in cellphones. The iPhone is proof positive that location-aware, networked, camera- and voice-equipped computing is here. While the killer mainstream cellphone apps are yet to arrive, a hacking marathon at the University of Southern California...
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Pumping up the comp sci pipeline
- I had the opportunity to speak with Chris Stephenson on Wednesday. Ms. Stephenson is the Executive Director of the Association for Computing Machinery's Computer Science Teachers Association CSTA. Along with Google and a grant from the National Science Foundation, the CSTA is coordinating an ambitious two-day conference to...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Will the electric utility be your server hoster? Or will Amazon be our electric utility?
- On the heels of last week's coverage where I pointed out how the Uptime Institute's chief analyst Bruce Taylor had referred to salesforce.com as being unethical because, in his estimation, the CRM/SFA service provider experience two avoidable datacenter outtages in 2006, I've been e-mailing back and forth with salesforce.com APEX...
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Using Flickr to edit your photos
- What can you do with millions of images? Computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University CMU think you can use web images to add realism to your photos. For example, the goal of one of their projects, named 'Photo Clip Art,' is to insert new objects into existing photographs by querying...
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Open source statistics? Anyone? Anyone?
- Open source statistics? Anyone? Anyone?Several programsLuke Tierney from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at The University of Iowa has a program called lisp-stat lisp based with an xlispstat package available for Xorg so you get a gui. A many many built in functions with the ability...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-02
- ACM - the copyright is provided at the end of the first page, ACM stands for Association for Computing Machinery
- Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code and indirect overhead due to perturbation of caches. Indirect overhead is calculated by measuring the running time of tasks that use context...
- White papers 2007-06-14
- Shaking a 275-ton building
- If you want to predict how a tall building can resist to an earthquake, some researchers have better tools than others. Engineers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center SDSC have built a full-size 275-ton building and really shaken it to obtain earthshaking images. The building was equipped with some 600...
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Vote online for President? Internet voting meets 'User Generated Politics'
- Edition Number 19 in this Digital Markets Blog special presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics.” The Association for Computing Machinery asserts: Ensuring the reliability, security, and verifiability of public elections is fundamental to a stable democracy. Convenience and speed of vote...
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Ready, set, code!
- One doesnt normally think of programmers sweating it out in the heat of competition, but the race is on for the best college programmer at the 31st annual International Collegiate Programming Contest ICPC, also known as the "Battle of the Brains," reports Campus Technology. The Association for Computing Machinery...
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Outlook unclear for Diebold machines in MD election
- Outlook unclear for Diebold machines in MD electionPrinceton videoOf course you have seen by now:http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/videos.htmlIt kind of speaks for itself.ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINESThe following is from OpEd News voting integrity editor Joan Brunwasser's review of Steve Freeman's book: Was the 2004 Election Stolen?"The Association of Computing Machinery ACM has 75,000 members....
- Discussion threads 2006-10-04
- Professor demonstrates Diebold flaws to Congress
- Computer science professor Edward W. Felten toted a Diebold Accu-Vote TS voting machine around Capitol Hill yesterday, demonstrating the machines vulnerability to viruses and hackers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. "Theres really no limit to the amount of mischief that can be done," he said. In a packed hearing...
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
- Where are the women in tech? At least 1200 will be in San Diego
- In about two weeks, more than 1200 women plus a handful of men will meet in San Diego for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. It is organized by the Anita Borg Institute, the leading advocate for women in technology leadership roles, and the Association of Computing Machinery....
- Blog posts 2006-09-22
- Warnings on voter databases
- With the creation of centralized computerized databases of voter registrations mandated by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 HAVA, many states have failed to institute necessary safeguards to protect their data against fraud, according to a new report from the Association for Computing Machinery. "Nobody's done...
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
- Best description of the intractable state of the DRM state
- Best description of the intractable state of the DRM stateDon't build with wire!Please -- don't advise people to put wire in the walls on building a new house. Conduit is the only long-term way to go, and it's dirt cheap.My 23-year-old house was prewired for networking, but it wasn't...
- Discussion threads 2005-09-28
- The decline of the West
- The U.S. tech industry, as represented by North American universities, is demonstratively losing it edge. The best the U.S. could do in the world finals of the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest was 17th place the University of Illinois. Universities in China and Russia took the top prizes. The West has...
- Blog posts 2005-04-08
- Homeland security: An assault on privacy?
- Homeland security: An assault on privacy?NO, NEVER..Privacey DOES NOT NEED TO BEREDEFINED!!! Just because we CAN do something with Technology oh like Blow the Planet up a thousand times over with NUKES does NOT mean we have to or in any fashion it is wise to do so!I should...
- Discussion threads 2004-10-20
- Microsoft aims for search on its own terms
- Microsoft aims for search on its own termsSophisticated TechnologyWhat is the big deal with searching the hard drives of one's PCs? The file-viewer already knows the type of the files and their other attributes. Will this search mechanism allow remote parties (e.g., MS) to peek into the contents of one's...
- Discussion threads 2003-11-24
- Chinese Checkers (Mobile)
- Play Chinese Checkers against the computer. There can be up to 6 players. Each player can have up to three color sets of checkers to play. You can choose three different skills. You can undo and redo up to 240 previous moves. The game can be saved and loaded again....
- Software downloads 2002-10-29
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