Managing included versions of third-party software components too often puts developers in no-win situations.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | January 19, 2022 at 09:51 AM
The New Year is stereotypically the time when we resolve to start some good habits and get rid of some of the bad.
Saurabh Bagchi From BLOG@CACM | January 3, 2022 at 11:16 AM
By 2019, I generally thought there wasn't much that could surprise me about organizing meetups. Then Covid-19 hit. I was so wrong.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | September 17, 2021 at 12:07 PM
Napier's multiplication and division rods, deriving from the basic multiplication table, simplify calculations considerably.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | August 16, 2021 at 11:12 AM
I take a peek at the history of computing to see if pioneering early developments were the results of team effort.
Saurabh Bagchi From BLOG@CACM | June 23, 2021 at 09:36 AM
Babbage wanted to control his analytical engine, regarded as the ancestor of the modern-day computer, with punched cards.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | May 7, 2021 at 11:28 AM
SQL represents data stored in rows and tables, while high-growth NoSQL is data stores arranged via nested documents as columnar schemas or key-value pairs. One...Alex Williams From BLOG@CACM | April 9, 2021 at 09:51 AM
Applications of artificial intelligence to education are spreading and intensifying, but we have the acronym backwards. Building ethical, equitable applications...Jeremy Roschelle, Pati Ruiz, and Judi Fusco From BLOG@CACM | March 15, 2021 at 05:12 PM
Broadly, NoSQL has an absence of strict schemas for entities/attributes, while SQL rigidly relates/regulates the two.
Alex Williams From BLOG@CACM | February 26, 2021 at 12:23 PM