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
Nuts and bolts advice for faculty and department heads on interacting with the National Science Foundation.
Jeannette Wing From BLOG@CACM | December 11, 2009 at 09:49 PM
I appreciate my GPS software can tell me where I am, but it should get better at predicting where I will go.
Ruben Ortega From BLOG@CACM | December 8, 2009 at 11:43 AM
CSEdWeek is a joint effort led by ACM with the cooperation and deep involvement of the Computer Science Teachers Association, the Computing Research Association...Cameron Wilson From BLOG@CACM | December 7, 2009 at 11:09 PM
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on media reveals a tendency in several countries: Internet censorship and more. Carlos Brewer From BLOG@CACM | December 7, 2009 at 07:58 PM
Last month most Internet users in Colombia were shocked with the case of a young girl who was murdered by a couple of young guys who used the girl's profile to...Carlos Brewer From BLOG@CACM | December 2, 2009 at 04:36 PM
SC09 (aka the “Supercomputing Conference”) was held during the week of November 16. The conference set an attendance record this year – roughly 10,000 attendees...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | November 30, 2009 at 11:54 PM
The CTO roundtable on cloud computing article in a past issue of CACM made me start thinking about what cloud computing really means for HCI and how people will...Tessa Lau From BLOG@CACM | November 30, 2009 at 09:55 AM
Georgia again counts the Advanced Placement test in Computer Science towards high school grauation requirements. The story highlights the challenges of making...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | November 27, 2009 at 10:10 AM
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
I believe solutions to many of the most challenging problems facing our society – medicine and health care, climate and the environment, economic security and privacy...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | November 9, 2009 at 06:37 PM
The second day of Informatics Education IV in Freiburg, Germany, focused on accreditation, expanding enrollments, student engagement, parellelism, and interdisciplinarity...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | November 6, 2009 at 01:48 PM
Do consumers want massively multi-core? Or would they rather have lower power consumption and better memory bandwidth? Are we building what people want?Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | November 5, 2009 at 08:36 PM
Informatics Education Europe, a workshop sponsored by ACM, BCS, Intel, and Microsoft, is focusing on improving computing education across Europe.
Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | November 5, 2009 at 09:37 AM
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
Like all good things, OOPSLA 09 concluded last Thursday. A great conference with many interesting presentations, I'm already looking forward for the next one :...Ajith Ranabahu From BLOG@CACM | November 1, 2009 at 10:16 AM
We aspire to be innovative, but unless we are wiling to implement it and measure it its just another good idea.Ruben Ortega From BLOG@CACM | October 30, 2009 at 09:43 AM