Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling

Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, University of Washington
Emily Blem, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Renee St. Amant, University of Texas at Austin
Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Doug Burger, Microsoft Research

SEP 11, 2012 17:33 PM

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Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling

Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, University of Washington

Emily Blem, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Renee St. Amant, University of Texas at Austin

Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Doug Burger, Microsoft Research

SEP 11, 2012 17:33 PM

A key question for the microprocessor research and design community is whether scaling multicores will provide the performance and value needed to scale down many more technology generations. To provide a quantitative answer to this question, a comprehensive study that projects the speedup potential of future multicores and examines the underutilization of integration capacity - dark silicon - is timely and crucial.

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Agile Adoption

Tuesday, Feb 28, 2012

NEWS: Are there repeated patterns of failure on Enterprise Agile Enablement efforts? Does success at the team level always result in success at the organization level? Sanjiv Augustine and Arlen Bankston discuss the Seven Deadly Sins that organizations repeatedly make so you can steer clear of them and benefit from a successful Enterprise Agile Adoption.

CLOUD - A Framework for Cloud Effectiveness Modeling

Thursday, Aug 23, 2012

ARTICLE: The US National Institute of Standards and Technology defines cloud computing as a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (such as networks, servers, storage, applications, and services that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. The cloud model promotes availability and is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models, and four deployment models.

CLOUD - Platform as a Service Benefits Requires Application Redesign

Thursday, Aug 23, 2012

ARTICLE: While infrastructure as a service (IaaS) rents you computing resources instead of purchasing your own, platform as a service (PaaS) replaces not only capital ownership, but the attendant labor required to maintain an application with reasonable service qualities, whether your company deploys business applications or consumer products like online games.

NETWORKING - Why Service Level Activation, OAM and Performance Monitoring Matter in Real-Time Cloud-Based Services

Thursday, Aug 23, 2012

ARTICLE: The ubiquity of cloud-based services promoted by a variety of different service providers could lull the neophyte network planner or service provisioning agent into a belief that moving apps to the cloud is only a matter of centralizing delay-invariant packet resources.

BIG DATA - Agile Development of High Performance Computing

Saturday, Sep 22, 2012

ARTICLE: The Met Office’s supercomputers produce over 20 terabytes of data every day –and all this data needs to be available to meteorologists on demand. In the last few years, a solution to the ever-increasing need for available data-handling capacity became urgent.

BIG DATA - Visualization Challenges for Radio Astronomy

Thursday, Aug 23, 2012

ARTICLE: It is safe to say that of all the sciences, astronomy deals with the greatest range of sizes, ranging from smaller than subatomic particles through to the staggering distances of the furthest quasar.

MOBILE - Desktop to Cloud to Mobile with Azure

Thursday, Aug 23, 2012

ARTICLE: In the age of ubiquitous internet, intelligent devices, and mobile displays that are good for more than just ruining your eyes, companies can no longer afford to sidestep the expanding mobile market. Here, we exhibit how to effectively evolve desktop applications to leverage both mobile and telemetry markets, and why cloud platforms such as Windows Azure are justifiably supplanting the PC as the platform of choice.

BIG DATA - Rendering Flight Telemetry in Platform-Independent 3D Touch-Interactive Simulations

Thursday, Aug 23, 2012

ARTICLE: Three dimensional graphics are a critical asset to engineers of all disciplines. Graph¬ics play many roles in product creation, from conception and prototyping to test data visualization. Many modern computer-assisted simulations use the same mouse-controlled 2D graphical user interfaces devel¬oped decades ago.

BIG DATA - The Rise of GPU Compute

Thursday, Aug 23, 2012

ARTICLE: The current trend of using cores aimed at rendering graphics to perform computational tasks usually handled by the central processing unit has had a major impact on the way programmers develop their applications.

NETWORKING - What is all this talk about Machine to Machine Solutions?

Friday, Aug 24, 2012

ADVERTISEMENT: SPONSORED BY VERIZON WIRELESS - Machine to Machine Solutions is a growing technology category as it addresses the previous scenarios and more. Verizon provides end-to-end machine-to-machine solutions that help you increase business awareness, drive efficiencies and create new revenue streams.

MOBILE - Writing One Program for Multiple Platforms

Friday, Aug 24, 2012

ARTICLE: It took decades for the platform wars of the 1980s and 1990s to play out. But now the technology world is facing an even greater contest to determine which mobile platform will reign supreme.

SECURITY - Agile Certificate Management and Trust Federation for Large Mobile Deployments

Friday, Aug 24, 2012

ARTICLE: There are already several challenges to using Public Key Infrastructure in traditional deployments, including ease of use, scalability, and managed trust. But deploying the technology over mobile devices presents additional challenges, including disconnected networks and a higher probability of device theft or loss.

MOBILE - Developing a Google App

Friday, Aug 24, 2012

ARTICLE: This article describes the process of designing and developing an application for the Google App Engine. The Google App Engine is Google’s cloud platform and enables application architects to leverage infrastructure in the cloud. The application was developed in Python, but there are other languages supported on the app engine namely Java, Go etc.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - 10 Steps to Developing a Mobile Application Strategy for the Enterprise

Friday, Aug 24, 2012

ARTICLE: Mobile technology plays a major role in our lives. Because mobile is such a big productivity booster, there’s much demand for mobile applications. But building applications is not as easy as it sounds. It helps to have a strategy.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Open Source Software for Operations Support Systems

Friday, Aug 24, 2012

ARTICLE: Technological heterogeneity is one of the most critical issues telecommunications operators face today. In every moderate-sized company, a network operations center has dozens of computers monitoring network elements by technology and vendor. Finding the root cause of an alarm in such a scenario can be a titanic task.

NETWORKING - ZigBee - A Smart, Viable, Wireless Architecture for Spacecraft Avionics

Friday, Aug 24, 2012

ARTICLE: Zigbee is gaining popularity as the foundation for smart infrastructures being widely deployed today, however at NASA Ames Research Center, it’s also being investigated for use in wireless sensor networks aboard spacecraft.

NETWORKING - When Do Solid State Drives Make Sense?

Friday, Aug 24, 2012

ARTICLE: As solid state drives continue to proliferate due to their falling costs and increased reliability, it follows that IT administrators all the way up to CTOs and CIOs will begin to ask themselves when the jump to SSDs makes sense. One may liken the decision to a Windows 7 upgrade or possibly converting from a laptop to a tablet--both tough decisions--but converting to SSDs can be a low-cost/high-impact effort.

SECURITY - Symbolic/Nonsymbolic Access Protocol

Friday, Aug 24, 2012

ARTICLE: Over the Internet, no one can be sure that the party on the other end is who they say they are. In addition, online assets and resources are commonly accessed using passwords and codes that, in principle, are known only by their rightful owners. Yet a password can be given away, stolen, or even sold outright.

SECURITY - Advances in Physical Security Information Management

Friday, Aug 24, 2012

ARTICLE: In modern society, the development of a territory is increasingly tied to the capability to ensure an adequate level of security to persons and infrastructures. Criminal acts, including terrorist attacks, accidents, and adverse natural events can pose a threat to...

INSIGHTS - Cloud Computing Creates New Roles in IT

Friday, Sep 21, 2012

ARTICLE: More and more businesses are becoming comfortable with cloud computing. While it's still early in the evolution to this new computing paradigm, adoption is proceeding at a rapid pace. The market has reached the tipping point that affirms a new technology's market viability and validates expectations of continued momentum.

INSIGHTS - The Growing Demand for Software Assurance

Monday, Sep 24, 2012

ARTICLE: As computing professionals, we know the critical and central role software plays in our lives and work. The size and complexity of programs continue to grow, as well as the number of their application domains. Unfortunately, there are often serious problems in software dependability, with issues of availability, reliability, safety, and security. The extensive use of the Internet and distributed computing has made software security an increasingly prominent and serious problem.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Managing Software Development Teams

Tuesday, Sep 25, 2012

ARTICLE: Software project managers have known for some time that adding people to a late project makes it later. While much has been written about this phenomenon, it comes as no surprise to those who have studied organizational behavior. They have documented many of the factors that drive teams and impact their performance. These factors include personality type, experience as a member of a team, the amount of pressure placed on the team to perform, the importance of the work being done, and the degree to which team members openly engage in sharing knowledge and experiences related to the tasks at hand.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Medical Device Software: Challenging Aspects of Compliance

Thursday, Sep 27, 2012

ARTICLE: The use of software for medical applications began in the 1950s, and was pioneered by Robert Steven Ledley, an American physicist. At that time, the primary application was in health informatics.

NETWORKING - Is the Hypervisor Market Expanding or Contracting?

Tuesday, Sep 25, 2012

ARTICLE: With the growing trend of virtualized computing, it is time to examine whether the market for different brands of hypervisors is expanding or contracting. In Aberdeen’s May 2012 survey on Server Virtualization, Aberdeen asked survey respondents to report the number and type of hypervisors they are using to support their server virtualization program. According to data in the resulting research report, “Is the Hypervisor Market Expanding or Contracting?“, the number of different hypervisor brands deployed in their datacenters is broad and expanding.

INSIGHTS - Transitioning from Software to Software Assurance

Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012

ARTICLE: If you're an experienced software developer, how can you change or shift your career in the direction of software assurance to take advantage of the growing need for professionals in this area?

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Toward Achieving Full Technology Gamification

Friday, Sep 28, 2012

ARTICLE: Over 30 years ago, technology in the workplace was perceived as exciting and futuristic. Employees considered themselves fortunate when they had access to computers that helped them do tedious and difficult tasks in a more efficient way. Times have changed and technology has spread to all aspects of our lives. The use of computers is no longer perceived as a privilege. Employees of large corporations can easily develop a negative attitude toward computer systems because they can be perceived as overly complex for what they want to use them for and are sometimes unreliable.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Risk Management in Kanban via Theory of Constraints

Monday, Oct 1, 2012

ARTICLE: Kanban for software has recently become very popular. One reason is that Kanban — a scheduling system that helps determine what to produce, when to produce it, and how much to produce — offers superior risk management out of the box, compared to methodologies such as Scrum and XP.

INSIGHTS - Making Interviews Count

Thursday, Oct 4, 2012

ARTICLE: There's no question that it's harder to get a job these days. Just getting your resume into the hands of a decision-maker is a major challenge, and if you're lucky enough to pull that off, then you've got an interview and — if you're good at interviewing — a round of interviews to prepare for.

INSIGHTS - Become a Mobile Apps Innovator

Wednesday, Oct 3, 2012

ARTICLE: In the rapidly evolving mobile application market, new technologies, players, devices, and platforms emerge just about every month. These constant shifts in the business landscape and competitive environment create uncertainty and risk for application developers already struggling to stand out. But few can ignore the opportunity, since mobility will eventually have a role in most digital products and services.

SECURITY - Security Threats and Analysis of Security Challenges in Smartphones

Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012

ARTICLE: A smartphone carries a substantial amount of sensitive data and thus is very attractive to hackers, making it an easy target. For these reasons, ensuring smartphone security is extremely important. While there are many similarities between smartphone security and regular security, distinct differences exist between these two. The unique characteristics of smartphones make securing them very challenging. In this paper, we summarize smartphone threats and attacks, reveal the unique characteristics of smartphones, evaluate their impact on smartphone security, and explore the countermeasures to overcome these challenges. Many enterprises have started to look into security issues in smartphones. However, these solutions must correspond with the unique characteristics in smartphones. New business models are highly desired to solve security issues in smartphones.

NETWORKING - Streaming Exascale Data over 100Gbps Networks

Monday, Oct 8, 2012

ARTICLE: Data-intensive computing is one of the crosscutting themes in today's computer research. Many scientific activities depend on large-scale data analysis, scientific simulations, and verification of experimental results. Moreover, experimental facilities are distributed around the world, and scientific communities need to engage in large collaborative efforts.

INSIGHTS - Technology Volunteers Make a Difference

Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012

ARTICLE: When the deadliest tornado outbreak in nearly a decade thrashed the state of Alabama in the spring of 2011, communities in rural Marion County were among the first to take a direct hit from a mile-wide, 132-mile-long EF-5 tornado. All businesses except one were damaged or destroyed in the small town of Hackleburg, including the police station and central telephone office.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Cloud Computing Standardization Panel at CLOUD 2012

Monday, Oct 1, 2012

ARTICLE: Distinguished panelists examine the complex landscape of cloud computing standards efforts, including international organizations, governments, consortia, and the overlapping needs and concerns of all in the field. The insights here are from the very people leading many of those activities, and include practical as well as insider views on where things are headed with regard to interoperability in cloud computing.

BIG DATA - Big Data, Big Analytics, and Big Insights Panel

Monday, Oct 1, 2012

VIDEO: This panel discusses the impact of big data for both business and technology management on the provider and consumer sides. The panelists share views and practical forecasts, predicting the trends in the short and long term, as well as highlighting the unsolved challenges to effectively leveraging massive amounts of data to some practical business and user ends.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Pioneering Innovative Technologies in User Documentation

Friday, Oct 12, 2012

ARTICLE: To be sustainable in this highly competitive world, organizations from all fields must strive to reach the global market and cater to a global audience. Software is developed, enhanced, and marketed with cohesive collaboration that spreads across cities, countries, and continents. Similarly, software documentation is a highly collaborative effort of teams spread across various locations. But it has the added challenge of needing to reach customers and interact with teams who speak multiple languages.

MOBILE - Cloud-Based Mobility Panel at Cloud 2012, Part 1 of 2

Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012

ARTICLE: This panel discussion on Cloud-Based Mobility explores the current trends, challenges, and potentials for cloud mobile platforms, focusing especially on infrastructure and user experience issues for optimizing services for cloud-based mobility as opposed to fixed-line and traditional approaches.

CLOUD - Stephen Diamond on the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative and Standardization at Cloud 2012

Friday, Oct 5, 2012

ARTICLE: Stephen Diamond, chair of IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative and the IEEE Cloud Computing Standards Committee discusses the IEEE's cloud standards efforts and explores where they intersect with other, related activities. In the end, the market with decide which standards win, but the need for interoperability among cloud technologies is clear.

INSIGHTS - Mobile and Pervasive Computing

Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012

ARTICLE: Back in 1984, when he was a student member of IEEE, Sumi Helal outlined his technological vision of what the world would be like in 2084 for the magazine IEEE Potential. He came across the magazine years later, after he'd helped make some of those technological predictions come true. Now at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Helal spoke to the IEEE Computer Society's Dick Price about teaching and the two mobile middleware startups he helped found. His advice to students? Stay in school as long as you can.

BIG DATA - Q2 2012 Technology Purchase Index (TPI) Update

Monday, Oct 29, 2012

ARTICLE: The TPI for overall technology purchases increased 1.9% between Q42011 and Q22012 reflecting slow but steady growth in the planned IT purchase intentions for business, education and institutions in the United States and Canada.

INSIGHTS - Nur A. Touba: Design and Test Research

Thursday, Oct 11, 2012

ARTICLE: The most valuable lifelong skill that Nur Touba picked up while working toward his doctorate in electrical engineering was mastering effective written and oral communication. Now a professor in University of Texas at Austin's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Touba is passing that same lesson on to his students.

MOBILE - Understanding International LTE roaming on IPX

Monday, Oct 15, 2012

ARTICLE: This year will see the most rapid increase of commercial Long Term Evolution networks since the world's first commercial LTE was launched in 2009. According to the Global Mobile Suppliers Association, there were 89 commercial LTE networks in 45 countries as of July. With the global spread of LTE networks, international roaming between them is about to start. IP eXchange (IPX) is poised to become an important architectural solution to efficiently exchange international traffic of IP-based services interworking among LTE networks.

BIG DATA - High Performance Computing in the Cloud

Thursday, Oct 11, 2012

VIDEO: Dejan Milojicic, HP senior researcher and director of the Open Cirrus Cloud Computing testbed, gave a well-received keynote on HPC in the cloud at Cloud 2012 in Honolulu, Hawaii. This panel discussion on Cloud-Based Mobility explores the current trends, challenges, and potentials for cloud mobile platforms, focusing especially on infrastructure and user experience issues for optimizing services for cloud-based mobility as opposed to fixed-line and traditional approaches.

CLOUD - Mitigating Cloud Security and Privacy Risks

Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012

ARTICLE: Cloud computing is already mainstream. Surveys on IT priorities reveal a growing focus on cloud systems, and adoption and cloud spending by IT departments is forecast to continue growing. Confusion surrounding the term "cloud computing" is slowly being dispelled by technical associations and institutes as standard definitions are developed and published to a wider audience.

MOBILE - Cloud-Based Mobility Panel at Cloud 2012, Part 2 of 2

Monday, Oct 15, 2012

VIDEO: Dejan Milojicic, HP senior researcher and director of the Open Cirrus Cloud Computing testbed, gave a well-received keynote on HPC in the cloud at Cloud 2012 in Honolulu, Hawaii. In the Question and Answer session, the Cloud-Based Mobility panelists discuss CLOUD attendees concerns about real-world developments among carriers, application providers, and content providers. They examine the impact on end users, as well as the way the ecosystem is developing and influencing the developers and vendors. They comment on several services that seem poised to succeed over the longer haul as well as approaches that are likely to fall by the side as new ones rise to the top because they offer better user experience and improvements in how vendors can provide services.

NETWORKING - The Insecurity of Wireless Networks

Thursday, Oct 18, 2012

ARTICLE: Wi-Fi is the standard protocol for wireless networks used extensively in US critical infrastructures. Since the Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP) security protocol was broken, the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol has been considered the secure alternative compatible with hardware developed for WEP. However, in November 2008, researchers developed an attack on WPA, allowing forgery of Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) packets. Subsequent enhancements have enabled ARP poisoning, cryptosystem denial of service, and man-in-the-middle attacks. Open source systems and methods (OSSM) have long been used to secure networks against such attacks. This article reviews OSSMs and the results of experimental attacks on WPA. These experiments re-created current attacks in a laboratory setting, recording both wired and wireless traffic. The article discusses methods of intrusion detection and prevention in the context of cyberphysical protection of critical Internet infrastructure. The basis for this research is a specialized (and undoubtedly incomplete) taxonomy of Wi-Fi attacks and their adaptations to existing countermeasures and protocol revisions. Ultimately, this article aims to provide a clearer picture of how and why wireless protection protocols and encryption must achieve a more scientific basis for detecting and preventing such attacks.

NETWORKING - Toward Uninterrupted Operation of Wireless Sensor Networks

Friday, Oct 19, 2012

ARTICLE: A two-step energy transfer and data-collection process combined with a mobile agent that acts as a data sink and wireless energy source would support nonstop operation in a wireless sensor network.

SECURITY - The Blind Man's Bluff Approach to Security Using IPv6

Monday, Oct 22, 2012

ARTICLE: Most networks today employ static network defenses. The problem with static defenses is that adversaries have unlimited time to circumvent them. This article proposes a moving-target defense based on the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) that dynamically obscures network-layer and transport-layer addresses. This technique can be thought of as "frequency hopping" in the Internet Protocol space. By constantly moving the logical location of a host on a network, this technique prevents targeted attacks, host tracking, and eavesdropping. The authors demonstrate the design's feasibility and functionality using prototypes deployed on Virginia Tech's campuswide IPv6 network.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Reducing Uncertainty in the Financial Evaluation of Technology Projects

Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012

ARTICLE: The standard return on investment (ROI) or cost-benefit analysis has proven to be less relevant for evaluating disruptive technology or strategic projects. However, these techniques remain the primary tool for all capital budgeting due to the lack of alternatives. These financial decision-making tools both rely on economic worth. This requires all components be quantified in terms of dollars, and discounted to current value.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Intelligent Distributed Systems

Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012

ARTICLE: The lightweight Internet-based communication for autonomic services (Licas) system started as a research platform for testing dynamic linking possibilities, to optimize a network for query processes. It was innovative in that respect, but the architecture design is now quite standard. As such, it can also be used to describe these standard features that a distributed and intelligent system would typically require.

INSIGHTS - Startups Are Not Just for Kids

Thursday, Oct 25, 2012

ARTICLE: Many of today's biggest technology companies were founded by kids barely out of high school. Bill Gates learned programming at 13 and left Harvard University as a junior to start Microsoft, a company that now has 78,000 employees worldwide and $50 billion in annual revenue.

INSIGHTS - The Road to Management

Friday, Oct 26, 2012

ARTICLE: The computing field asks a lot of its practitioners. Its professionals must be diligent, naturally curious, good problem solvers, able to grapple with big concepts as well as minutiae and willing to think outside of conventional boundaries to develop new code, architectures and applications that will find value in business and society. Yet in today’s competitive and global business environment, computing professionals must add yet another fundamental skill to the mix: the ability to lead and manage people.

BIG DATA - Amr Awadallah on Big Data, Big Alalytics, and Big Insights

Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012

VIDEO: In his talks at Cloud 2012 conference, he presents research and views on data integration, analytical language, and ideas on a fully functioning big data operating system.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Computing Conversations: Bertrand Meyer - Eiffel Programming Language

Thursday, Oct 18, 2012

VIDEO: Computer magazine's multimedia editor Charles Severance interviews Bertrand and Annie Meyer about the Eiffel programming language, software engineering, and object-oriented approaches.

MOBILE - Improving Preventive Healthcare with High-Tech Telemedicine Models

Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012

ARTICLE: Access to medical care is sometimes difficult for citizens living in distant and underserved areas. However, surprisingly, even citizens living in large cities in BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — may find it hard to reach medical services. Not being able to access medical primary care when an illness, injury, or potential health problem arises may lead to late diagnosis and delay in treatment. The problem gets even more serious with highly complex medical cases where the focus is on keeping the patient alive.

BIG DATA - Finding the Ideal CPU Multithreaded Solution

Thursday, Nov 1, 2012

ARTICLE: In today's smartphone and tablet-driven era, multicore processors have become a sort of de-facto standard as more emphasis is placed on the hardware under the hood than form factors or operating system (OS) features. Every product launch sends everyone from analysts, journalists, and tech enthusiasts on a wild adventure trying to interpret how the compute capabilities of each new device will stack up against existing or upcoming products.

INSIGHTS - Discovering Hidden Purpose and Meaning in the Work We Do

Tuesday, Nov 6, 2012

ARTICLE: Many of us have lived with that gnawing feeling that our work must have a purpose beyond our current employer and project. We hope to find a wellspring of motivation from connecting with that purpose. Many search for years, then eventually give up and settle into enduring work with dogged determination while keeping one eye on retirement. However, a few are lucky enough to discover their unique purpose for work — a purpose that uniquely matches their interests and personalities.

INSIGHTS - A New Era of Tech Incubators?

Monday, Nov 5, 2012

ARTICLE: If you thought tech incubators were a thing of the past, think again. In multiple cities around the world, new incubators are cropping up while longstanding ones are churning away and even expanding.

Tiny Computers Take Center Stage

Monday, Oct 29, 2012

NEWS: A market is emerging for tiny computers, some as small as a flash drive. These mini-machines are inexpensive, use small, low-power systems on chip, offer surprisingly good performance, and have many potential uses.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Challenges and Future Research Directions of Services Computing

Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012

VIDEO: Ephraim Feig, the chair and founding member of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC) discusses the challenges of working with the US Social Security Administration to migrate legacy systems to the cloud. His insights are instructive to any enterprise with a large installed base, as well as more nimble start-ups. He identifies challenges from foundation to technologies and user expectations relating to services computing. After this talk, he joined a panel discussion on the topic at the Cloud 2012 conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.

BIG DATA - Green Computing: A Dual Technology for Cloud Computing and HPC

Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012

ARTICLE: Climate change and global warming are viewed by many as the two most challenging problems facing the Earth. Green IT and in particular, green computing, are two ways the information and communications technology community is working to address those problems.

MOBILE - 4G Wireless Networks

Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012

ARTICLE: 4G wireless networks are receiving a lot of attention from researchers, wireless carriers, device manufacturers, and mobile users. This survey compares the original vision with current 4G offerings and considers future prospects.

SECURITY - Toward More Secure and Reliable Access Control

Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012

ARTICLE: Conventional access control mechanisms, relying on a single security token to authenticate remote users, introduce a single point of failure and are vulnerable to relay attacks. A threshold-based distance-bounding protocol that distributes a user's private key among various personal devices improves system security and reliability.

SECURITY - Realities of E-voting Security

Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012

ARTICLE: There has been substantial debate about e-voting security in the past 10 years. As a result, e-voting has evolved away from lever machines and punched cards, through touchscreen voting machines, to a voter-verifiable paper audit trail phase, and voter-marked paper ballots paired with optical scan tabulators. Still, the debate over e-voting security continues. The guest editors introduce the articles in this special issue, which cover technology aimed at both improving election integrity and providing confidence through postelection audits. These articles advance the e-voting security debate and will contribute to long-term election integrity.

MOBILE - Content Discovery and Caching in Mobile Networks with Infrastructure

Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012

ARTICLE: We address content discovery in wireless networks with infrastructure, where mobile nodes store, advertise, and consume content while Broker entities running on infrastructure devices let demand and offer meet. We refer to this paradigm as match-making, highlighting its features within the confines of the standard publish-and-subscribe paradigm. We study its performance in terms of success probability of a content query, a parameter that we strive to increase by acting as follows: 1) We design a credit-based scheme that makes it convenient for rational users to provide their content (thus discouraging free-riding behavior), and it guarantees them a fair treatment. 2) We increase the availability of either popular or rare content, through an efficient caching scheme. 3) We counter malicious nodes whose objective is to disrupt the system performance by not providing the content they advertise. To counter the latter as well as free riders, we introduce a feedback mechanism that enables a Broker to tell apart well- and misbehaving nodes in a very reliable manner, and to ban the latter. The properties of our match-making scheme are analyzed through game theory. Furthermore, via ns-3 simulations, we show its resilience to different attacks by malicious users and its good performance with respect to other existing solutions.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Computing Trends Lead to New Programming Languages

Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012

ARTICLE: New programming languages are emerging to meet the demands of recent computing and communications developments, such as multicore CPUs, high-performance and cloud computing, distributed systems, and mobile technology. According to an expert, is the best approach to software development because it enables parsimony - using the simplest technique that solves the problem.

SECURITY - To Black Box Cryptography and Beyond

Wednesday, Nov 14, 2012

ARTICLE: Traditionally, cryptography has offered a means of communicating sensitive (secret, confidential, or private) information while making it unintelligible to everyone except for the message recipient. Nowadays, the process of protecting sensitive data embedded in code, while attempting to hide portions of text from malicious eyes, is an ever-growing concern.

MOBILE - Leon Bian on Cloud-Based Mobility at CLOUD 2012

Thursday, Nov 15, 2012

ARTICLE: Leon Bian, director of Global Enterprise Mobile Solutions at LG Electronics, opens a panel discussion on Cloud-Based Mobility at Cloud 2012 by discussing the rapid growth of the mobile market, including what the 'turf war' between Android and iOS devices and what that means for the consumer and enterprise markets.

INSIGHTS - Patent Reform: New Tools for Challenging Patent Validity as of September 2012

Friday, Nov 16, 2012

ARTICLE: In the ninth in a series of articles providing basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses, Computing and the Law contributors Brian M. Gaff, Brian P. Murphy, Ralph A. Loren, Christine A. Dudzik, and Lisa Swiszcz examine strategic considerations in seeking and defending against new post-grant review procedures under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.

BIG DATA - It's Complicated

Monday, Nov 19, 2012

ARTICLE: Authors David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher provide an audio recording of their Forward Slash column, in which they discuss how computer science seems to be moving rapidly into the social sciences, not to build machines that simulate our actions but to hold up a mirror to our lives.

INSIGHTS - Starting a Business: Which Entity Structure Is Best for You?

Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012

ARTICLE: In the tenth in a series of articles providing basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses that operate in computing-related markets, the authors discuss the different types of corporate entities.

BIG DATA - Eric Baldeschwieler on Big Data, Big Analytics, and Big Insights

Wednesday, Nov 21, 2012

ARTICLE: Eric Baldeschwieler is cofounder and CTO of Hortonworks. In this talk at the Cloud 2012 conference, he presented research on increasing data variety and complexity as well as the challenges, issues, and constraints in the evolving space before participating in the ""Big Data, Big Analytics, Big Insights"" panel discussion in Honolulu, Hawaii.

INSIGHTS - Love the Show!

Monday, Nov 26, 2012

ARTICLE: Authors David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher provide an audio recording of their Forward Slash column, in which they discuss building computer engineeringís reputation.

INSIGHTS - A Brief Overview of the America Invents Act

Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012

ARTICLE: A series of articles in Computer magazine provides basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses that operate in computing-related markets; in this installment, the authors discuss the America Invents Act.

INSIGHTS - Accruing Technical Debt: Practical Decision-Making and Its Business Relevance

Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012

ARTICLE: Christof Ebert discusses technical debt including a Netscape vs. IE case study and provides a framework with practices for managing technical debt.

INSIGHTS - Woven on the Loom of Sorrow

Thursday, Nov 29, 2012

ARTICLE: Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how conflict has shaped computing and computing has changed the nature of warfare.

BIG DATA - SimWare: A Holistic Warehouse-Scale Computer Simulator

Friday, Nov 30, 2012

ARTICLE: Author Sungkap Yeo discusses how SimWare can simulate various aspects of a datacenter to analyze power consumption and heat efficiency.

CLOUD - 'A View from the Cloud' -- IEEE Cloud 2012 Conference

Wednesday, Nov 21, 2012

VIDEO: IEEE CLOUD 2012 brought together industry professionals, researchers, academics, and government workers to explore the challenges and opportunities of cloud computing, the so-called 'fourth wave' of computing. This video showcases some of the key concepts and activities from the conference and points to the ongoing efforts to turn cloud computing into the successful leap that so many computing leaders believe it will be.

Facing Concerns about Facial Recognition

Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012

NEWS: The increasing use of facial recognition has raised privacy-related concerns about the way the technology could be used.

INSIGHTS - The Impact of Cloud Computing on IT Jobs

Monday, Dec 3, 2012

ARTICLE: If you've been working in the IT industry for any length of time, you've probably heard of the term "cloud computing". Cloud computing is essentially the use of computing resources to deliver services to users over the internet. As many have expected, this concept has changed the way that hardware and software is used.

NETWORKING - Industrial Ethernet Gains Ground in Manufacturing

Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012

ARTICLE: An increasing number of manufacturing organizations are looking at industrial networking as a discipline. Many of these companies are bringing together traditional automation engineering with corporate IT to gain a cross-functional view of how industrial network performance can be improved.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Computing Conversations: Rasmus Lerdorf Interview on Creating PHP

Wednesday, Dec 5, 2012

ARTICLE: Computer magazine's multimedia editor Charles Severance interviews Rasmus Lerdorf about the creation of PHP.

Aditya Bansod on HTML5

Thursday, Feb 9, 2012

NEWS: Aditya Bansod talks about the benefits of working with the HTML5 platform and the state of the art both in mobile devices and desktop. He also makes his prediction about were the market is heading and how the demand from media companies will shape future devices and specs.

Alan Shalloway on Scaling Agile With Lean and Kanban

Wednesday, Apr 18, 2012

NEWS: Alan Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With over 40 years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum and agile design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium. He has a Masters in Computer Science from M.I.T. as well as a Masters in Mathematics from Emory University.

Erlang Inventors Talk Language Future

Thursday, Sep 22, 2011

NEWS: In this interview Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding, co-inventors of the Erlang language, talk about the future of the language, including its use in web programming, its ability to scale and more. The duo also discuss Erlang support for NoSQL databases, running the language on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and comparisons with other languages such as Google’s Go.

Optimizing for Big Data at Facebook

Monday, Jun 11, 2012

NEWS: Hive co-creator Ashish Thusoo describes the Big Data challenges Facebook faced and presents solutions in two areas: Reduction in the data footprint and CPU utilization. Generating 300 to 400 terabytes per day, they store RC files as blocks, but store as columns within a block to get better compression. He also talks about the current Big Data ecosystem and trends for companies going forward.

Browser APIs, Extensions and Add-on Security, with Brian Warner

Thursday, Apr 14, 2011

NEWS: Brian Warner, an engineer with Mozilla Labs, talks about Browser Extension APIs and how the Jetpack SDK and CommonJS are changing the way we use the browser as a development platform. He also talks about the differences between the popular browsers and the security considerations that arise from trusting 3rd-party add-ons.

Randy Shoup on Evolvable Systems

Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011

NEWS: Randy Shoup discusses evolvable systems: how to run different versions of a system in parallel during migrations, decoupling a system with events, schemas at eBay and much more.

Rachel Davies on Scrum Coaching and Women in Tech

Friday, Nov 4, 2011

NEWS: In this interview, Rachel Davies expounds on the differences in role between a Coach and Scrum Master. Rachel drills down into what makes a good coach and provides her take on women in technology. David asks her about her take on Agile and if Agile has reached a 10-year half-life.

Future of Web Application Security with Tyler Close

Tuesday, Oct 18, 2011

NEWS: As web applications have evolved away from the old client-server model, so have the security threads. In this interview, Tyler Close talks about common security challenges and how these are affected by the new HTML5 APIs and Ecmascript 5.

Gregory Collins on High Performance Web Apps with Snap and Haskell

Monday, Sep 12, 2011

NEWS: Gregory Collins talks about Snap, a high performance web framework for Haskell, where it fits in the web framework spectrum, the Iteratee I/O model, Haskell performance and much more.

Ville Tuulos on Big Data and Map/Reduce in Erlang and Python with Disco

Wednesday, Aug 3, 2011

NEWS: Ville Tuulos talks about Disco, the Map/Reduce framework for Python and Erlang, real-world data mining with Python, the advantages of Erlang for distributed and fault tolerant software, and more.

Nick Kallen Discusses Scala at Twitter

Monday, Jul 11, 2011

NEWS: Nick Kallen from Twitter is interviewed by Randy Shoup about Twitter’s use of the Scala programming language. Nick discusses using Scala to build high-performance and scalable network services (including FlockDB), the powerful dualism of Scala which combines the best of object-oriented and functional approaches and also provides his views on the tradeoffs between static and dynamic languages.

Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson on Erlang

Wednesday, Jun 8, 2011

NEWS: Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson talk on Erlang features and what makes it a powerful concurrent language in a discussion centered around their book entitled “Erlang Programming”. They talk about design patterns, functional programming, type annotations, hot software upgrades, influences on other languages, using the VM for other languages, and others.

Jerome Dochez Discusses Early Plans for Java EE 7, Planned to Ship in 2012

Monday, May 16, 2011

NEWS: In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Glassfish architect Jerome Dochez talks to Charles Humble about plans for Java EE 7. The interview covers what Java EE 6 has achieved, possible additional profiles, the impact of the cloud, new features planned for the platform, and modularity.

Craig Larman on the Challenges of Scaling Scrum to Large Organizations

Thursday, May 19, 2011

NEWS: In this interview, Craig Larman discusses the many challenges you face when scaling scrum to large organizations. These challenges stem from decisions to use component teams over feature teams; adopting out sourcing without careful consideration for the impact of that decision; and over specialization of skills and limited learning which leads to waste, bottlenecks, and poor performance.

Diana Larsen and James Newkirk on the State of Agile

Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011

NEWS: Diana Larsen and James Newkirk take a look back at the beginnings of the Agile community, talk about the state of Agile training and certification and much more.

Jim Highsmith on Adaptive Leadership

Wednesday, Apr 4, 2012

NEWS: Recorded at the 10th anniversary of the agile manifesto signing, Jim Highsmith discusses how he works with executive management teams to introduce and integrate agile techniques into enterprise organizations from both the business and IT sides. He defines adaptive leadership and discuses adaptive ALM, continuous delivery, lean and Kanban methods.

Mike Lee on Game Design and Gamification

Thursday, Sep 27, 2012

NEWS: Mike Lee talks about Game Design, Gamification, and much more.

Stephanie Kaiser on Metrics Driven Design

Friday, Sep 28, 2012

NEWS: Stephanie Kaiser explains how metrics driven design is used to develop and continuously improve games at wooga, how the company uses A/B testing and usability testing and much more.

Big Data Architecture at LinkedIn

Monday, Aug 6, 2012

NEWS: In this interview at QCon London, LinkedIn’s Sid Anand discusses the problems they face when serving high-traffic, high-volume data. Sid explains how they’re moving some use cases from Oracle to gain headroom, and lifts the hood on their open source search and data replication projects, including Kafka, Voldemort, Espresso and Databus.

IBM's Tim Ellison on the Future of Java

Monday, Jul 2, 2012

NEWS: Tim Ellison talks to Charles Humble about Lambda, extension methods, modularity, and plans for Java beyond Java 8.

Beyond Fearless Change: New Patterns and the Agile Mindset

Monday, Dec 3, 2012

NEWS: In this interview Linda Rising describes what she has learned since writing Fearless Change and introduces 12 new patterns. Linda describes how she realized that some patterns are bigger, wider, and deeper than she originally imagined and offers the Piggyback pattern as an example. Linda also presents research into the fixed versus Agile mindset and renders her own conclusions.

Laurent Sansonetti on Writing Ruby Apps for iOS with RubyMotion

Monday, Dec 3, 2012

NEWS: Laurent Sansonetti explains using Ruby for iOS development with RubyMotion, how Garbage Collection works in RubyMotion, the library ecosystem, the state of debugging and profiling, and much more.

INSIGHTS - Work/Play

Thursday, Dec 6, 2012

ARTICLE: Authors David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher provide an audio recording of their Forward Slash column, in which they discuss the odd relationship gaming has with software and software engineering.

SECURITY - Are Things Getting Worse?

Friday, Dec 7, 2012

ARTICLE: Today's systems might be purposefully designed, but they'll evolve and grow. The key to future dependable infrastructure and services is to align incentives (for example, for profitability, resilience, structure, and innovation) to ensure that initial systems are adaptable, then shape their growth so that services and systems develop with the right levels of resilience and redundancy.

INSIGHTS - Computing and the Law: The America Invents Act

Monday, Dec 10, 2012

ARTICLE: The twelfth in a series of articles in Computer magazine provides basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses that operate in computing-related markets discusses employment law issues faced by new companies.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Big Iron Moves Toward Exascale Computing

Thursday, Dec 13, 2012

ARTICLE: Developers and researchers face many challenges in trying to produce exascale supercomputers, which would perform a thousand times faster than today's most powerful systems.

BIG DATA - SCADA Systems: Challenges for Forensics Investigators

Tuesday, Dec 11, 2012

ARTICLE: Gary Kessler interviews Irfan Ahmed about SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems.

BIG DATA - Computing Conversations: Vint Cerf on the History of Packets

Wednesday, Dec 12, 2012

ARTICLE: Computer magazine's multimedia editor Charles Severance interviews Vint Cerf about how TCP/IP evolved from ARPANET, an earlier small-scale research network.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - A Brief History of Packets - Vint Cerf

Friday, Dec 14, 2012

ARTICLE: Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column from the latest issue of Computer magazine, in which he discusses his interview with Vint Cerf about the history of packets.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Using In-Memory Analytics to Quickly Crunch Big Data

Friday, Jan 4, 2013

ARTICLE: In-memory analytics - which probes data stored in RAM rather than on disk, as is traditionally the case - is becoming popular because it speeds up the analysis process, even as data volumes explode.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - From Stone Knives and Bearskins to Mobile and Cloud Computing

Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012

ARTICLE: The advances made in computers, communications, and the Internet in the past 50 years are some of the most exciting and significant technological changes in history. The author examines where we've been and how far we've come.

MOBILE - Next-Generation Wi-Fi: As Fast as We'll Need?

Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012

ARTICLE: The latest generation of 802.11, 802.11ac, is slated to be officially approved by the end of 2013. It's expected to bring further diminution of wired infrastructure within areas such as manufacturing floors and campus uses. The faster 802.11ac technology will also likely boost aggregate performance of legacy Wi-Fi networks, and its wider channels could deliver more data to end devices.

NETWORKING - Toward a Zero-Carbon Network: Converging Cloud Computing and Network Virtualization

Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013

ARTICLE: Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is one of the most challenging research topics in ICT because of people's overwhelming use of electronic devices. Current solutions focus mainly on efficient power consumption at the micro level; few consider large-scale energy-management strategies. The low-carbon, nationwide GreenStar Network in Canada uses network and server virtualization techniques to migrate data center services among network nodes according to renewable energy availability. The network deploys a "follow the sun, follow the wind" optimization policy as a virtual infrastructure-management technique.

SECURITY - Personal Health Records: New Means to Safely Handle Health Data?

Friday, Dec 21, 2012

ARTICLE: Personal health records offer a way to manage health data while lessening healthcare costs, improving patient data quality, and fostering healthcare efficiency, but privacy and security issues are particularly important considerations for PHR designers.

NETWORKING - Boldly Grown Where No Plant Has Grown Before

Monday, Dec 24, 2012

ARTICLE: Plants have been grown in space, notably on the space shuttle and International Space Station (ISS), but have not yet sprouted on another astronomical body. A group at Ames Research Center (ARC) is attempting to change that by sending a small plant habitat to the moon with the private Moon Express vehicle. The project calls for germinating plants within six days of landing and sending photos and telemetry back to ARC via the Moon Express communications subsystem.

NETWORKING - Leveraging Modularity Principle for Agile Middleware Migration Solutions

Wednesday, Dec 26, 2012

ARTICLE: There is one distinct trend getting more visibility these days. It is none other than the aspect of middleware migration as some established middleware solutions such as Sun JCAPS, are getting discarded or dropped on the way due to various reasons. In particular, Oracle has bought up Sun Microsystems and since Oracle has a comprehensive middleware suite, it discarded the Sun’s JCAPS). Also more compact and comprehensive middleware solutions such as Oracle Fusion Middleware, IBM ESB, TIBCO AMX, are coming up fast as the middleware market is steadily growing up. Some niche integration solutions are being bought by bigger companies to strengthen their middleware product offering portfolio. Oracle is one of those buying companies. Also most of the existing middleware products are continuously revisited and refurbished to be solidified and stabilized to anticipate and tackle new requirements quiet efficiently. Business enterprises are planning to embrace open source integration solutions in order to cut the IT budget. All these trends directly and indirectly insist on the need for smarter solutions for automating the growing middleware-migration needs. Product vendors, service organizations and individuals are grasping this grand opportunity to come out with sophisticated solutions.

MOBILE - Evaluation of Interactive Visualization on Mobile Computing Platforms for Selection of Deep Brain Stimulation Parameters

Friday, Dec 28, 2012

ARTICLE: In recent years, there has been significant growth in the use of patient-specific models to predict the effects of neuromodulation therapies such as deep brain stimulation (DBS). However, translating these models from a research environment to the everyday clinical workflow has been a challenge, primarily due to the complexity of the models and the expertise required in specialized visualization software. In this paper, we deploy the interactive visualization system ImageVis3D Mobile, which has been designed for mobile computing devices such as the iPhone or iPad, in an evaluation environment to visualize models of Parkinson's disease patients who received DBS therapy. Selection of DBS settings is a significant clinical challenge that requires repeated revisions to achieve optimal therapeutic response, and is often performed without any visual representation of the stimulation system in the patient. We used ImageVis3D Mobile to provide models to movement disorders clinicians and asked them to use the software to determine: 1) which of the four DBS electrode contacts they would select for therapy; and 2) what stimulation settings they would choose. We compared the stimulation protocol chosen from the software versus the stimulation protocol that was chosen via clinical practice (independent of the study). Lastly, we compared the amount of time required to reach these settings using the software versus the time required through standard practice. We found that the stimulation settings chosen using ImageVis3D Mobile were similar to those used in standard of care, but were selected in drastically less time. We show how our visualization system, available directly at the point of care on a device familiar to the clinician, can be used to guide clinical decision making for selection of DBS settings. In our view, the positive impact of the system could also translate to areas other than DBS.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Lean Software Development: A Tutorial

Thursday, Dec 27, 2012

ARTICLE: “Lean Software Development” has become a popular term over the last few years. This tutorial describes where it comes from, what it means, how it relates to well-known agile development practices, and how it will evolve in the future.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Arvind: 2012 IEEE Computer Society Harry H. Goode Memorial Award Winner

Monday, Dec 31, 2012

ARTICLE: This video showcases Dr. Arvind and his influential work in the field. For more on the IEEE Computer Society's awards program.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - October-December 2012 Transactions on Haptics Podcast

Tuesday, Jan 8, 2013

ARTICLE: This podcast gives an overview of the articles in the October-December 2012 issue of Transactions on Haptics.

SECURITY - The Major Cyberincident Investigations Board

Monday, Jan 7, 2013

ARTICLE: One reason that airplanes are so safe is that crashes are investigated by government agencies; the results are published, and the lessons from one crash go into future airplane design, pilot training, and technology to prevent another. There's nothing like that in the computer world, which is one reason why we see the same failures over and over again. The authors suggests that we need a Major Cyberincident Investigations Board, which would be charged with performing&#x0097;and publishing&#x0097;detailed analyses of the causes of significant computer-related incidents.

HIGH PERFORMANCE - A Big-Data Perspective on AI: Newton, Merton, and Analytics Intelligence

Thursday, Jan 10, 2013

ARTICLE: The flood of big data in cyberspace will require immediate actions from the AI and intelligent systems community to address how we manage knowledge. Besides new methods and systems, we need a total knowledge-management approach that willl require a new perspective on AI. We need "Merton's systems" in which machine intelligence and human intelligence work in tandem. This should become a normal mode of operation for the next generation of AI and intelligent systems.

SECURITY - Silver Bullet Talks with Howard Schmidt

Friday, Jan 11, 2013

ARTICLE: Gary McGraw interviews Howard Schmidt, former cybersecurity coordinator for the Obama administration. They discuss the differences between doing security work in the public and private sectors, the difficulties of establishing cybersecurity in the government, and how the actions of Anonymous and Wikileaks square with the notion of free speech. Hear the full podcast at www.computer.org/silverbullet. Show links, notes, and an online discussion can be found at www.cigital.com/silverbullet.

BIG DATA - Q3 2012 Technology Purchase Index (TPI) Update

Monday, Jan 7, 2013

VIDEO: Harte-Hanks’ December 2012 Technology Purchase Index (TPI) indicates a whopping 21% increase in technology purchase intentions in Q3 2012. Planned investments in cloud computing and investments stemming from the need to store and analyzed “big data” appear to be driving this acceleration in buying intentions despite the economic uncertainty posed by the recent Presidential Elections and the impending “fiscal cliff”. Based on over 10,000 surveys conducted monthly with technology decision-makers, the December TPI indicates these additional technology trends: - Purchase intentions for software solutions were up 33.6%, the largest increase of all technology categories tracked by the TPI. - Hardware and cloud computing purchase intentions also showed sharp increases of 17.7% and 15.4% respectively. - Planned investments in virtualization solutions (desktop, storage, and server) continued their downward trend with a decline of 2.9% over previous quarter.

INSIGHTS - Ronald Fagin: 2012 IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award

Wednesday, Jan 16, 2013

ARTICLE: Ronald Fagin received the 2012 IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award for his fundamental and lasting contributions to the theory of databases. The W. Wallace McDowell award is awarded by the IEEE Computer Society for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contributions that fall within the scope of Computer Society interest.

HIGH PERFORMANCE - Cyber Dumpster Diving: Creating New Software Systems for Less

Thursday, Jan 17, 2013

ARTICLE: This is the first article we're fortunate to have from the SATURN 2012 conference. This issue highlights a compelling story of crisis, larceny, and, of course, Fortran—the first programming language I learned, which I did by teaching it to undergrad engineering students. Because I never saw those engineers after they left my class, it's heartening to see that others like them learned some good lessons and developed useful insights. I'm sure you will enjoy reading this architectural tale.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Adaptive Mixed Reality Rehabilitation

Friday, Jan 18, 2013

ARTICLE: Students at Arizona State University's School of Arts, Media, and Engineering discuss adaptive mixed reality rehabilitation research and extending interactive stroke rehabilitation from the clinic to the home.

SECURITY - Steve Lipner on the Science of Cybersecurity

Monday, Jan 21, 2013

ARTICLE: In this Computing Now Industry Perspective video, Microsoft's Steve Lipner discusses his experiences in developing theories and practices aimed at creating perfectly secure systems and software. The evolution of his views on the best approaches to creating more secure systems has been shaped by real-world efforts over more than four decades. Although there is still no way to gauge or ensure total security, he argues that learning from the way system security fails is key to continuous improvement.

SECURITY - Securing Application & IT Systems: What Tools, Technologies and Best Practices Can and Cannot Protect Against

Thursday, Jan 17, 2013

ARTICLE: There isn’t a security threat that you can think of that some security company’s marketing literature doesn’t promise a solution for. But despite the zeal of marketers and the production of many great security solutions, there are still many threats to enterprise IT that simply cannot be offset, mitigated or prevented by a single technology solution.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Innovation Reconsidered

Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013

ARTICLE: "Innovation" and "innovative architecture" are topics of broad popularity in software engineering. Yet, the two terms appear to mean different things to different people—with interpretations of both driven more by personal interests than by their true meanings. It's therefore essential for architects to have a clear understanding of what "innovation" means in the context of their projects if they are to make the right design decisions and communicate the intended messages to project stakeholders.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - The Importance of Being Declarative

Thursday, Jan 24, 2013

ARTICLE: Author Diomidis Spinellis provides an audio recording of his Tools of the Trade column, in which he discusses why well-written declarative code is easier to understand, modify, and maintain.

INSIGHTS - Software Support for Effective Social Networks: Nation of Neighbors

Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013

ARTICLE: IEEE Software editor-in-chief Forrest Shull interviews Ben Shneiderman about the Nation of Neighbors Project and lessons learned about software that supports effective social networks.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Computing and the Law: Protecting Bioinformatics as Intellectual Property

Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013

ARTICLE: Although trade secrets and copyright provide some protection to bioinformatics tools, a carefully drafted patent can provide the broadest available protection in an increasingly competitive market.

BIG DATA - Cloud Computing Unlocks Drug Discovery

Thursday, Jan 31, 2013

ARTICLE: Antibiotics, antivirals, NSAIDs — the list of modern "wonder drugs" goes on and on. And yet many diseases remain resistant to drug therapy, and in other instances, the side effects of drug treatment are as bad as or worse than the disorder. Why, the public wonders, aren't more new and better drugs coming to market?

SECURITY - Hackers Sneak in through the Side Channel

Thursday, Jan 31, 2013

NEWS: Side-channel attacks take an unusual approach to compromising systems. They are becoming increasingly popular, and security researchers are looking for ways to stop them.

INSIGHTS - The Ethical Dilemma

Friday, Feb 1, 2013

ARTICLE: Author David Alan Grier expands on his Errant Hashtag column, in which he discusses the potential confusion Internet postings can cause when information posted in the past still seems new today.

SECURITY - Secure Development Tips: Security Practices That Continue To Be Useful

Monday, Feb 4, 2013

ARTICLE: Multiple, consecutive failed authentication attempts over a short period of time are a symptom that is used to detect when an account is under attack. Locking out the account prevents the attacker from compromising and accessing the account.

MOBILE - My Digital Life

Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013

ARTICLE: Arosha Bandara, a lecturer in computing at the Open University, explains how embedded, interconnected devices have grown to affect our lives.

SECURITY - Hardening Your Banking Applications from Attack

Wednesday, Feb 6, 2013

ARTICLE: Vulnerabilities are discovered in software on an extremely regular basis. Sometimes it's the internal team or an external penetration testing team which discovers them and informs the developers. Sometimes there are malicious attackers who exploit vulnerability in your software and steal your source code or data. Worse still, they might publish all the data and make it available for download on some file sharing site.

INSIGHTS - Paying Bribes Abroad Will Get You in Hot Water in the US

Thursday, Feb 7, 2013

ARTICLE: Because of its broad and ambiguous language, the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prohibits much more conduct than most people might think.

INSIGHTS - IEEE Computer Society President's Message: How Things Appear

Monday, Feb 11, 2013

ARTICLE: IEEE Computer Society President David Alan Grier discusses how the missions of IEEE and the Computer Society compare.

MOBILE - Computing Conversations: Mitchell Baker on the Mozilla Foundation

Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013

ARTICLE:

Computer magazine's multimedia editor Charles Severance interviews Mitchell Baker about the Mozilla Foundation, the building of the Firefox and Netscape browsers, and open source software.

SECURITY - Define a Security Policy

Thursday, Feb 14, 2013

ARTICLE: Defining a Java security policy is a defense in-depth mechanism for restricting your application from performing tasks that the operating system would otherwise allow. This is especially important in the event your application becomes compromised by an attacker.

MOBILE - Computing Conversations: The Mozilla Foundation, with Mitchell Baker

Friday, Feb 15, 2013

ARTICLE: Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Mitchell Baker about the Mozilla Foundation, the Firefox and Netscape browsers, and open source software.

SECURITY - Security Tips and Insights - SQL Injection: Why Does it Still Exist?

Monday, Feb 18, 2013

ARTICLE: In the wake of the Yahoo password breach, I scratched my head and thought to myself "are we REALLY still talking about this, especially at big companies like Yahoo"?

The Larger Purpose of Big Data with Pavlo Baron

Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013

INTERVIEW: Big Data means more than just the size of a dataset. Pavlo Baron explains different ways of applying Big Data concepts in various situations: from analytics, to delivering content, to medical applications. His larger vision for Big Data ranges from specialized Data Scientists, to learning Decision Support Systems, to helping mankind itself.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Philippe Kruchten: The Games Software Architects and Requirements Managers Play

Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013

VIDEO: IEEE Software editor-in-chief Forrest Shull interviews Philippe Kruchten about how software engineers can be misled by their own cognitive biases, fallacious reasoning and the games architects and requirements managers play.

BIG DATA - Craig Mundie’s TechForum Insights: Episode 1, Big Data and Machine Learning

Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013

VIDEO: Every year, Craig Mundie, our Chief Research and Strategy Officer, invites a small group of leading tech journalists and bloggers to share an in-depth look at the company’s strategic and technical vision for the future — an event called TechForum that I’ve covered previously on this blog. The meeting is an opportunity to showcase some of Microsoft’s latest research ideas and prototypes, as well as to discuss the trends and technologies that will reshape how we experience computing in our lives.

NETWORKING - Towards a Theory of Trust in Networks of Humans and Computers

Thursday, Feb 21, 2013

VIDEO: Computer science is undergoing a fundamental change. Over the last 40 years the field was concerned with making computers useful. Focus was on programming languages, compilers, operating systems, data structures and algorithms. These are still important topics but with the merging of computing and communication, the emergence of social networks, and the large amount of information in digital form, focus is shifting to applications such as the structure of networks and extracting information from large data sets. This talk will give a brief vision of the future and then an introduction to the science base that is forming to support these new directions in computer science.

BIG DATA - New Directions in Computer Science

Friday, Feb 22, 2013

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Video: A Principled Way to Use Frameworks in Architecture Design

Monday, Feb 25, 2013

VIDEO: Author Humberto Cervantes from Autonomous Metropolitan University interviews Josué Martínez Buenrrostro, a Software Architect at Quarksoft in Mexico City about the design process discussed in the article "A Principled Way to Use Frameworks in Architecture Design."

BIG DATA - Video: Promising New Breakthrough in Speech Translation Technology

Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013

VIDEO: In the late 1970s a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University made a significant breakthrough in speech recognition using a technique called hidden Markov modeling which allowed them to use training data from many speakers to build statistical speech models that were much more robust. As a result, over the last 30 years speech systems have gotten better and better. In the last 10 years the combination of better methods, faster computers and the ability to process dramatically more data has led to many practical uses.

BIG DATA - Video: Computation Challenges for Creating Autonomous Systems

Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013

VIDEO: The current computing challenges for creating mobile autonomous systems that can interact in new ways with the physical world, on the ground, in water, and in the air. Recent progresses in Autonomous Mobile Networks are distributed ad-hoc networks of robots that can sense, actuate, compute and communicate with each other using point-to-point multi-hop communication. The nodes in such networks include static sensors, mobile sensors, robots, animals, and humans. Such systems combine the most advanced concepts in perception, communication and control to create computational systems capable of large-scale interaction with the environment, extending the individual capabilities of each network component to encompass a much wider area, range of data, and control capabilities.

NETWORKING - Video: Towards a Theory of Trust in Networks of Humans and Computers

Thursday, Feb 28, 2013

VIDEO: Jeannette M. Wing's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference.

BIG DATA - Finding the Needle in the Big Data Systems Haystack

Thursday, Mar 7, 2013

ARTICLE: With the increasing importance of big data, many new systems have been developed to "solve" the big data challenge. At the same time, famous database researchers argue that there is nothing new about these systems and that they're actually a step backward. This article sheds some light on this discussion.

SECURITY - Cybercrime: Dissecting the State of Underground Enterprise

Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013

ARTICLE: Cybercrime's tentacles reach deeply into the Internet. A complete, underground criminal economy has developed that lets malicious actors steal money through the Web. The authors detail this enterprise, showing how information, expertise, and money flow through it. Understanding the underground economy's structure is critical for fighting it.

NETWORKING - Layers of Success

Monday, Mar 4, 2013

ARTICLE: Layering at the protocol stack and beyond has contributed hugely to the Internet's success, letting functionality be introduced basically overnight. However, it's increasingly hampering the reliability of the network it created.

MOBILE - GPUs Go Mobile

Friday, Mar 1, 2013

ARTICLE: Mobile GPUs will need substantial improvements to enable wireless devices to perform the complex graphics-related functions that many manufacturers, developers, and users want.

David Nolen on ClojureScript, JavaScript, Source Maps

Monday, Feb 25, 2013

INTERVIEW: David Nolen explains the state of ClojureScript and how it integrates with browsers and the JavaScript ecosystem. Also, Nolen talks about Source Maps and how they will make JavaScript a better compilation target.

CLOUD - Adrian Cockcroft on Architecture for the Cloud

Monday, Feb 25, 2013

INTERVIEW: In this interview, InfoQ talks with Adrian Cockcroft, the architect for Netflix's cloud systems team. We discuss how Netflix combines 300 loosely coupled services across 10,000 machines. An interesting revelation is that they fully embrace continuous delivery, and each team is allowed to deploy new versions of their service whenever they want.

SECURITY - Efficient Cryptography for the Next Generation Secure Cloud

Friday, Mar 8, 2013

ARTICLE: We all benefit from the endless alternatives that cloud provides us regarding our storage, computation, and distribution needs. For example, Dropbox or Wuala store our data in the cloud, so that we can reach it anywhere, anytime. Amazon EC2 and SETI@Home projects let us outsource a computational job that is beyond our computer's capabilities to the cloud.

BIG DATA - Fighting Wildfires with Data

Monday, Mar 11, 2013

ARTICLE: When wildfires strike, all eyes turn to the clouds, hoping for a downpour that will quench the flames. Now, wildfire prevention teams on the Greek island of Lesvos are looking to a different kind of cloud for help, thanks to the VENUS-C Fire application and the computing power of Windows Azure.

INSIGHTS - Computing and the Law Podcast: Design Patents

Friday, Mar 15, 2013

ARTICLE: Authors Brian M. Gaff and Peter J. Cuomo provide an audio recording of the Computing and the Law column, in which they discuss how design patents, though once relatively uncommon, are now used aggressively and — as recent events have shown — can lead to significant liability for those found to infringe them.

CLOUD - Cloud Computing in Healthcare - Explore the Unexplored

Monday, Mar 18, 2013

ARTICLE: Every idea, every innovation, and every research has a story behind it. This article is no different. It hails from an experience that I went through recently.

CLOUD - ChronoZoom Named Top Educational Resource at 2013 SXSW Interactive

Wednesday, Mar 20, 2013

ARTICLE: When Microsoft Research teamed up with the University of California Berkeley to create a digital tool for exploring the history of everything, we knew we had the potential to build a killer educational app. After all, a tool that can reveal the cross-currents of history, revealing the interdependencies that cut across disciplines, geographies, and cultures, would offer a major advance in the understanding of Big History — the history of not just humanity, but of life, Earth and, ultimately, the cosmos. Moreover, it would provide researchers with a tool to derive unique insights based on multidisciplinary connections between vastly disparate data sets.

NETWORKING - Van Jacobson: Content-Centric Networking

Friday, Mar 22, 2013

ARTICLE: Content-centric networking is much more than caching of content—it also works well for live streams of popular data. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/Gyt7DFOYt-w is an audio recording of Charles Severance's Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Van Jacobson about content-centric networking. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/Bc-4PJPxfVQ is a video interview with Van Jacobson about the advantages of content-centric networking for live streams of popular data.

NETWORKING - Social Networking Meets Software Development: Perspectives from GitHub, MSDN, Stack Exchange, and TopCoder

Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013

ARTICLE: Many successful software companies use social networking as a way to improve the services or products they provide. To gain an understanding of the role social networking plays in today's software development world, the guest editors of the January/February 2013 issue conducted semistructured interviews with leaders from four successful companies: Brian Doll, an engineer who manages GitHub's marketing; Doug Laundry, a principal group program manager at Microsoft; David Fullerton, vice president of engineering at Stack Exchange; and Robert Hughes, the president and chief operating officer of TopCoder. The first Web extra at http://try.github.com is a video of Joel Spolsky discussing the structure, software, technology, and culture of Stack Exchange. The second Web extra at http://blip.tv/play/gvUBgqLbRgI.html is a video of Matthew McCullough and Tim Berglund demonstrating how Git not only incorporates the best features of existing source control systems but also includes unique distributed capabilities that make version control commands available without connectivity, allowing you to choose when to interact with a network. The third Web extra at http://blip.tv/play/gvUBgqLbRgI.html is a video of Matthew McCullough and Tim Berglund demonstrating how to leverage Git's powerful yet underused advanced features. The last Web extra at http://youtu.be/SK6TBI1bNLI is a video of Thomas Baden, Chief Information Officer, State of Minnesota, Department of Human Services, describing the experience of working on the TopCoder Platform and with the members of the TopCoder Community.

CLOUD - A Green Software Development Life Cycle for Cloud Computing

Friday, Mar 29, 2013

ARTICLE: Cloud computing's recent proliferation has received attention from green crusaders hoping to mitigate the carbon footprint of large datacenters and IT infrastructures, but what about the software? A new framework for a greener cloud focuses on energy-efficient software development.

BIG DATA - Melding the Physical and the Virtual with Big Data

Tuesday, Mar 26, 2013

ARTICLE: I just had a most fascinating discussion with Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, a researcher in the Sensing and Energy Research Group at Microsoft Research Redmond. He's at TechFest 2013 this week, discussing a project called Enabling Real-Time Business-Metadata Extraction, his focus for the last six months. I asked him a few questions about the project, and he responded in terms at once sincere, ingenious, and passionate.

SECURITY - Restricting Signed Java Applets

Monday, Apr 1, 2013

ARTICLE: I was recently on a project where I was looking at Java applets. While looking at them, I found that the moment you sign an applet, you give it carte-blanche. It downloads to your hard drive and if it is malicious, for whatever reason, it could do a lot of bad things like deleting files from your disk or connecting to sites you didn't even know existed.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - A Technology that Comes Highly Recommended

Monday, Apr 8, 2013

ARTICLE: Today's recommendation systems use new approaches that let companies more effectively suggest products and services to potential customers.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Video: Bill Buxton at TechFest 2013: Designing for Ubiquitous Computing

Wednesday, Apr 3, 2013

VIDEO: Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, shares his perspectives on the premise that in this emerging world of ubiquitous computing, it is vital that devices, applications, and services are designed, from the start, by taking the other members of the ecosystem into account. Individually, they must offer great value, experience, and satisfaction, and combined, great design must derive value from all the other devices, applications, and services in the ecosystem, while continually reducing overall complexity.

HIGH PERFORMANCE - Video: SandDance

Thursday, Apr 4, 2013

VIDEO: SandDance is a web-based visualization system that uses 3D hardware acceleration to explore the relationships between hundreds of thousands of items. Arbitrary data tables can be loaded, and results can be filtered using facets and displayed using a variety of layouts.

NETWORKING - Computing Conversations: Pooja Sankar on the Piazza Collaboration System

Friday, Apr 5, 2013

VIDEO: Computer magazine's multimedia editor Charles Severance interviews Pooja Sankar about the Piazza online collaboration system that was developed to help students, particularly women, studying science and engineering subjects feel less isolated.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Video: Enabling Real-Time Business-Metadata Extraction

Tuesday, Apr 9, 2013

VIDEO: Real-time business information, such as current occupancy level and music loudness, can be invaluable to mobile users planning an outing. Crowdsourcing, via real-user check-ins, can gather such information to be displayed in search or to be indexed to provide more detailed real-time business metadata.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Mobile Game Changers

Thursday, Apr 11, 2013

VIDEO: The history of video games is built on a shifting foundation of constant evolution and revolution. Author Jason Pace describes how the changes in the industry have been both dramatic — as with the meteoric rise of PC power and Internet connectivity in the 1990s — and subtle, like the emergence of always-connected Internet devices giving rise to game experiences served in byte-sized increments. As major platforms continue to expand and diversify, one thing remains certain: we're likely to continue seeing the revolution-evolution cycle unfold in the years to come.

SECURITY - Data Breaches: When the Lawyers Get Involved

Monday, Apr 15, 2013

ARTICLE: We all know that data breaches are situations businesses encounter can get extremely complex. State laws start to take hold around breach disclosure, expensive forensics specialists are needed to re-engineer how attacks and/or mishandling of sensitive information occurred... and now, the lawyers are jumping into the fray.

MOBILE - Wireless Charging Appears Ready for Prime Time

Friday, Apr 12, 2013

NEWS: Wireless technology provides users with convenience except when they have to charge batteries, which typically requires chargers and electrical outlets. Now, though, several organizations hope to roll out wireless-charging technologies this year.

MOBILE - Understanding PowerVR Series5/5XT SGX, Mobile's Leading GPU

Monday, Apr 22, 2013

ARTICLE: As the accelerated rate of adoption for mass-market smartphones and tablets is creating an increased pull from OEMs and ODMs to promote terms like “dual core” or “quad core” above everything else, consumers can easily lose track of which solution is better and why.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Reducing Uncertainty in the Financial Evaluation of Technology Projects

Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013

MOBILE - Don't Let Your App Down: How to Build Scalable Graphics for Mobile

Thursday, Apr 25, 2013

ARTICLE: As the capabilities of mobile device accelerate, scaling the fidelity of graphics to get the most out of the underlying GPU has become a unique selling point when differentiating your application from the crowd. To give you an insight into how this can be done across the wide range of devices available today, this article will provide you with a number of useful app development and optimization recommendations.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Tools of the Trade: System Software

Friday, Apr 26, 2013

ARTICLE: Author Diomidis Spinellis provides an audio recording of his Tools of the Trade column, in which he discusses how with mean and lean code, paranoid testing, and comprehensive logging, programmers can write the systems software that their applications deserve.

Samuel Crescencio on the Lean Pyramid and Agile Adoption in South America

Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013

INTERVIEW: Samuel Crescencio discusses the Lean Pyramid, a perspective that links Lean management ideas with Agile values principles and good technical practices, providing a framework for enterprise wide Agile adoption. He also talks about the establishment of the Agile community in South America and his ambitions the region.

Ward Cunningham on the Appeal of OOP and Dynamic Languages, Federated Wiki

Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013

INTERVIEW: Ward Cunningham talks about the continuing appeal of OOP and dynamic languages, asynchronous programming, and much more. Also: Ward explains the ideas behind his latest project Federated Wiki.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Emerging Computing Technologies for Resilient & Robust Intelligent Infrastructure

Monday, Apr 29, 2013

ARTICLE: A word from the Guest Editors Sandeep K. Shukla and Arpan Pal seeking original manuscripts for the Special Section on Emerging Computing Technologies for Resilient & Robust Intelligent Infrastructure for the new Open Access Journal IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC).

SECURITY - Crossing the "Valley of Death": Transitioning Cybersecurity Research into Practice

Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013

ARTICLE: New and innovative technologies will only make a difference if they're deployed and used. It doesn't matter how visionary a technology is unless it meets user needs and requirements and is available as a product via user-acceptable channels. One of the cybersecurity research community's biggest ongoing challenges is transitioning technology into commercial or open source products available in the marketplace. This article presents an R&D execution model to increase the success rate of technology transition along with several examples of successful technology transition from the US Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate's cybersecurity R&D program.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops about Geographically Distributed Agile Teams

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

ARTICLE: We've all read a lot about agile software development—the various flavors and methods sprouting up to tackle new issues in requirements, architecture, design, coding, and testing. But it's rare to hear real, tangible, objective lessons based on the experiences of those who have tried some form of agile development and failed. Get ready to take notes!

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Using Speculation to Enhance JavaScript Performance in Web Applications

Thursday, May 2, 2013

ARTICLE: JavaScript lets developers provide client-side interactivity in Web applications, but because it is sequential, it can't take advantage of multicore processors. Thread-level speculation (TLS) addresses this issue by enabling the speculation of JavaScript function calls and thus exploits the parallel performance potential multicore processors provide. The authors implemented TLS in the Squirrelfish JavaScript engine, which is part of the WebKit browser environment. They evaluate their approach using 15 popular Web applications on an eight-core computer, and show significant speed-ups without any modifications to the JavaScript source code.

Hackers Hold Computers for Ransom

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

NEWS: Security experts are increasingly worried about ransomware schemes, in which hackers demand payment from victims after locking up their computers or encrypting their files.

HIGH PERFORMANCE - Preserving Latin America's Wildlife

Monday, May 13, 2013

ARTICLE: In the late 1800s, the guanaco, a close relative of the llama, was hunted to near extinction. As we mark this year's Earth Day (April 22), I want to share my excitement about a new tool that looks to make the future a little brighter for the guanaco and other threatened species in Latin America. That new tool is LiveANDES (Advanced Network for the Distribution of Endangered Species).

HIGH PERFORMANCE - Exploring the Biases of Big Data

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

ARTICLE: On Feb. 28, at the Santa Clara (Calif.) Convention Center, Kate Crawford, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England, took the stage during the Strata Conference to deliver an illuminating, 17-minute talk entitled Algorithmic Illusions: Hidden Biases of Big Data.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Authors David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher provide an audio recording of their Forward Slash column

Thursday, Oct 11, 2012

PODCAST: Authors David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher provide an audio recording of their Forward Slash column, in which they discuss how computer science seems to be moving rapidly into the social sciences, not to build machines that simulate our actions but to hold up a mirror to our lives.

INSIGHTS - Bob Metcalfe: Ethernet at Forty

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

PODCAST: Audio Podcast - Bob Metcalfe: Ethernet at Forty Author Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Bob Metcalfe about how the Ethernet local area network was created 40 years ago at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

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