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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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Trip Report on Dagstuhl Seminar on Live Coding
Live coding is programming performance with generates music for an audience, often in a collaborative setting. It's a jam session on laptops with rich research...
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The First Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2013
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2013 is an annual event where 200 young researchers get to meet with and learn from 40 Turing Award, Fields Medal, Abel Prize...
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Turing's 1936 Paper and the First Dutch Computers
The following question has polarized the computer-science community: Did Alan Turing's 1936 paper 'On Computable Numbers' influence the early history of computer...
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Towards Empirical Answers to the Core Problems of Software Engineering
Can empirical research give us an answer to the big problems?
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Leaping the Exascale Chasm
The global race is on to build ever-faster supercomputers, fueled by a combination of scientific and engineering needs to simulate phenomena with greater resolution...
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So, Who Won The Battle Of The Brains?
And the winner of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is...
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The Heat Is On
Students work together to solve complicated problems while competing at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
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Coping With Linux Distro Fragmentation (visualized in One Giant Diagram)
I describe software incompatibility problems caused by fragmentation in Linux-based operating systems and present one potential solution.
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Apocalypse No! (Part 2)
Catastrophism and reliance on dubious studies have no place in serious discussions of software engineering.
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What Does 'Big Data' Mean (Part 4)?
The "big variety" use case is examined, in this fourth post in a series on big data.
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Exascale Software: Just a Few Orders of Magnitude
Extraordinary parallelism, unprecedented data locality and adaptive resilience: these are daunting architecture, system software and application challenges for...
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Doing It Right or Doing It Over?
Not everyone hits on America, who for India sets sail.
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Athena Award Nominations Closing Soon!
Don't miss out on the chance to nominate someone for an Athena Award from ACM-W.
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Software Engineering in the Venice of the North
ESEC-FSE 2013 (in Saint Petersburg,, 18-26 August) is the place to be for software engineering in 2013.
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Teaching Real-World Programming
In this post, I describe a ubiquitous style of programming that, to my knowledge, has never been formally taught in the classroom.
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Is It Time to Change How Software Developers Are Hired?
Considerations of how conventional hiring practices prevent diversification of software development groups.
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What Does 'Big Data' Mean? (Part 3)
The "big velocity" use case is examined in this third post in a series on big data.
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