Big web applications are hungry for RAM. They want lots of low power RAM. And they want little else.Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | July 9, 2010 at 03:42 PM
When a corporate, government, or university IT department of the 1970s debated an upgrade to its IBM S/370 mainframes, it is doubtful that the IT director was in...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | April 24, 2010 at 09:56 AM
A marked difference at CHI 2010 compared to last year is the amount of research around social media and the use of social media during the conference. These practices...Ed H. Chi From BLOG@CACM | April 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Let's rethink computer science education in face of Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and beyond. The Internet have changed everything we know about how computing is done. It's...Ed H. Chi From BLOG@CACM | April 1, 2010 at 10:09 AM
A decade ago, e-mail spam was a severe problem. Now, e-mail spam is barely noticeable. After years of battles between spam filters and spammers creating new tricks...Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | March 4, 2010 at 01:43 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
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
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
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Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about "No SQL" databases. This blog post considers the performance argument about No SQL databases; a subsequent posting...Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | November 4, 2009 at 08:56 AM
OOPSLA 2009 workshops started yesterday (Sunday Oct 25th) and featured two workshops on Cloud Computing. The presence of a diverse audience led to many interesting...Ajith Ranabahu From BLOG@CACM | October 26, 2009 at 05:26 PM
Scientists from diverse fields are feeling the impact of Social Web systems and are publishing research papers that characterize, model, prototype, and evaluate...Ed H. Chi From BLOG@CACM | October 22, 2009 at 07:59 PM
A recent trend in HCI research is the extension of the long time goal of augmenting human intelligence to "augmenting social intelligence." That is, enabling not...Ed H. Chi From BLOG@CACM | October 5, 2009 at 09:47 AM
How many electronic devices do you own? It is tempting to answer, “Just a handful,” but the truth is much more nuanced. Here’s a simple experiment that will (quite...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | September 25, 2009 at 12:27 AM
All too often, our technical curricula fail to focus on the human aspect of cross-domain collaboration. Technical skills are necessary, but not sufficient. One...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | July 31, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Relational database management systems (DBMSs) have been remarkably successful in capturing the DBMS marketplace. To a first approximation they are “the only game...Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | June 30, 2009 at 11:56 AM