Communications of the ACM

Font for Digits Lets Numbers Punch Their Weight

New Scientist

Researchers at the St. Andrews and Calgary universities have developed FatFonts, a font that offers a way to write numbers so...

Researchers Propose Solution to 'Bufferbloat'

The Register (UK)

Xerox PARC's Van Jacobson and Pollere's Kathleen Nichols have developed Controlled Delay, a queue management mechanism designed...

The Elusive Capacity of Networks

MIT News

Researchers at MIT, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Technology in Munich have shown that in a wired...

Microsoft Research, New York City

John Langford

Yahoo! laid off people. Unlike every previous time there have been layoffs, this is serious for Yahoo! Research.

Possible Hadoop Trajectories

Michael Stonebraker and Jeremy Kepner

Hadoop has spread rapidly in the last few years as a platform for parallel computation in Java, but we believe a lot of improvement...

No, Maybe, Yes, Obviously: Telling the Future the Past

Daniel Reed

The Kubler-Ross model of the stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance — is sometimes an apt description...

What Does Facebook's $100 Billion IPO Mean for You?

Slate

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Machines Shouldn't Grade Student Writing—Yet

Slate

In 2002, Indiana rolled out computer scoring of its 11th grade state writing exam.

First Amendment Protection for Search Engine Search Results

The Volokh Conspiracy

Your Mouse is a Database

Erik Meijer

Web and mobile applications are increasingly composed of asynchronous and real-time streaming services and push notifications...

Why LINQ Matters: Cloud Composability Guaranteed

Brian Beckman

The benefits of composability are becoming clear in software engineering.

The Hyperdimensional Tar Pit

Poul-Henning Kamp

Make a guess, double the number, and then move to the next larger unit of time.

Technical Perspective: An Experiment in Determinism

Steven Hand

It is widely held that parallel programming is far more difficult and error prone than writing sequential code. In particular...

Efficient System-Enforced Deterministic Parallelism

Amittai Aviram, Shu-Chun Weng, Sen Hu, Bryan Ford

We introduce a new parallel programming model addressing the issues facing current methods of executing parallel programs deterministically...

What Agile Teams Think of Agile Principles

Laurie Williams

Even after almost a dozen years, they still deliver solid guidance for software development teams and their projects.

MobiCon: A Mobile Context-Monitoring Platform

Youngki Lee, S. S. Iyengar, Chulhong Min, Younghyun Ju, Seungwoo Kang, Taiwoo Park, Jinwon Lee, Yunseok Rhee, Junehwa Song

User context is defined by data generated through everyday physical activity in sensor-rich, resource-limited mobile environments...

A Comparative Study of Cyberattacks

Seung Hyun Kim, Qiu-Hong Wang, Johannes B. Ullrich

Attackers base themselves in countries of convenience, virtually.

Comparative Analysis of Protein Networks: Hard Problems, Practical Solutions

Nir Atias, Roded Sharan

Examining tools that provide valuable insight about molecular components within a cell.

Probabilistic Topic Models

David M. Blei

Surveying a suite of algorithms that offer a solution to managing large document archives.

The Next Generation of GPS Navigation Systems

J. Y. Huang, C. H. Tsai, S. T. Huang

A live-view GPS navigation system ensures that a user's cognitive map is consistent with the navigation map.