In late 2009 DARPA held its Network Challenge, a competition designed to see how online social networks could locate 10 red weather balloons moored throughout the...Ethan Trewhitt From BLOG@CACM | February 24, 2010 at 10:26 AM
When late night comedy can't retain an audience but a man lipsynching in his chair nets more than 700 million views, we know that something is up. What makes...Michael Bernstein From BLOG@CACM | February 11, 2010 at 02:54 PM
As I looked out the window of my plane at the sun setting on the horizon, turning the clouds a deep red, I began piecing my thoughts together for this final blog...Michael A. Oren From BLOG@CACM | February 11, 2010 at 01:58 PM
What does it take for people to collaborate in spite of geographical, disciplinary and cultural differences? This article looks at the work of two researchers...Erika S. Poole From BLOG@CACM | February 11, 2010 at 10:16 AM
This post will give a summary of one paper each from sessions on Groupware Technologies, the experimental CSCW Horizons, and Everyday Healthcare.
Michael A. Oren From BLOG@CACM | February 9, 2010 at 09:52 AM
Imagine you’re a parent who has suffered the unthinkable: your child has died. How do you cope with such a traumatic, painful, and disorienting experience? For...Erika S. Poole From BLOG@CACM | February 9, 2010 at 10:16 AM
Data mining researchers, application builders, and social scientists want to collect and analyze data about your activities online. But when do we cross the line...Michael Bernstein From BLOG@CACM | February 9, 2010 at 11:17 AM
I will be reporting on two of the sessions I attended this afternoon. One session was on analyzing interactions, which dealt primarily with methods for measuring...Michael A. Oren From BLOG@CACM | February 8, 2010 at 09:46 AM
In a keynote delivered to this year's ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), author and academic Clay Shirky captured the distinction between...Michael Bernstein From BLOG@CACM | February 8, 2010 at 09:49 AM
I suspect much of computing is still socially conditioned by its roots in computational paucity to recognize fully the true opportunity afforded by computational...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | February 8, 2010 at 09:33 AM
Given the well known increased risk of burnout for an extended "Crunch Time," why do developers put up with it?
Ruben Ortega From BLOG@CACM | February 1, 2010 at 11:54 AM
The latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report is out, and it says that computing is booming! So why are there so many IT workers complaining about being laid...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | January 19, 2010 at 05:08 PM
What have we learned from the DARPA Network Challenge and the design of social participation systems? The principal concern for designers of social participation...Ed H. Chi From BLOG@CACM | December 31, 2009 at 05:12 PM
In many parts of the western world, the frenzy of holiday shopping has reached its crescendo. With apologies to Charles Dickens, it is instructive to consider...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | December 23, 2009 at 03:52 PM
From an entirely unexpected source, we begin to realize the dream of an external brain that supplements our knowledge, wisdom, and memories.Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | December 14, 2009 at 04:22 PM
Robert Johnson, director of engineering at Facebook was the last keynote at OOPSLA 2009. Robert’s talk: “Moving Fast at Scale - Lessons Learned at Facebook”, aimed...E. Michael Maximilien From BLOG@CACM | November 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM