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Where is the Cradle of the Computer?
The digital computer of today arose in the first half of the 1940s independently in three different countries: Germany, the U…
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Agile Methods: A Follow-Up ACM Webinar
A follow-up session to the ACM webinar Agile Methods: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly will take place on March 27.
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Feature-Based Development: The Lasagne and the Linguini
Agile authors tell us that we can build systems one feature at a time. Can we?
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What Is Your Research Culture? Part 3: The Web of Science
Experienced institutions know that the Web of Science is inapplicable to the evaluation of computer science research and researchers. It is time that others learned...
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The NIPS Experiment
In the NIPS experiment, 10% of papers submitted to the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation went through its review process twice, with results compared...
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Why the 'Data Lake' Is Really A 'Data Swamp'
The notion of putting all one's data into a "data lake" to encourage employees to run analytics has a serious flaw.
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HPC: Computational Performance vs. Human Productivity
One of the themes at SC14 was the tension between developing programs that run fast vs. the time required by humans to develop and maintain fast-running programs...
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Envisioning Your Ideal Live-In Robot at Miraikan
Miraikan in Tokyo showcases Japanese technologies and challenges visitors to think how humans can improve their quality of life while mitigating risks.
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Is There a 10x Gap Between Best and Average Programmers? And How Did It Get There?
There's not much evidence for a 10x programming productivity gap, but it doesn't matter from an education perspective.
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Software's Vital Role at Japan Robot Week 2014
Modern robots are no longer just about hardware. Software algorithms play an essential role in bringing life-like movements to industrial robots and humanoids. ...
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Computing: Art, Magic, Science
A new EdX MOOC emphasizes abstractions, Design by Contract and software quality.
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What Is Reality?
And, what flavor of reality do you prefer: standard, augmented, virtual...
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Hadoop at a Crossroads?
A few facts and opinions and a couple of announcements, with a prediction on where the "Hadoop stack" might be going.
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Typing Without Typing
Type inference made practical for an object-oriented/functional programming language.
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Python Is Now the Most Popular Introductory Teaching Language at Top U.S. Universities
Eight of the top 10 CS departments in the U.S., and ~70% of the top 40, teach Python in introductory courses.
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Small-Group Code Reviews For Education
Real-time, small-group code reviews are great learning opportunities for students.
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The Good, the Hype and the Ugly
One of the most dazzling changes to the software development world in the past decade has been the spread of agile methods.
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Run-Time Assertions: What Are You Waiting For?
Would Design by Contract have avoided Heartbleed?
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Those Who Say Code Does Not Matter
Often, you will be told programming languages do not matter much. It is a pretty general rule that people arguing language does not matter are simply trying...
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ACM Multimedia 2013 – Best Papers and the Revision Process
This year ACM Multimedia had a new revision process that may be of interest for other ACM conferences. Let's review it and see also the best papers selection.
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