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Plenty of proteins
The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
Between the lines
Smartphone apps are driving changes in the way people park. Sensors, crowdsourcing, and big data are making it easier to find open parking spots.
Estonia: a model for e-government
Over the next decade, the population of Estonia is expected to soar more than 600% as the country becomes the first in the world to open its borders to an influx of e-residents.
Forging relationships
Michael Stonebraker didn't realize at the outset that it would take six years to create INGRES, one of the world's first relational databases.
Emergent innovation
Fernando Flores, president of Chile's National Innovation Council for Competitiveness, discusses a new common sense about innovation.
Forgetting made (too) easy
Considering the implications of digital data removal implementations.
Created computed universe
Computing crosses cosmology and makes the case for agnosticism.
An interview with U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith
Recently appointed U.S. CTO Megan Smith discusses her evolving governmental role.
The science of managing data science
Lessons learned managing a data science research team.
Reliable Cron across the planet
… or: How I stopped worrying and learned to love time.
Evaluation without ground truth in social media research
Even without it, some ingenious methods can be developed to help verify users' social media behavioral patterns.
Colored Petri nets: a graphical language for formal modeling and validation of concurrent systems
Formal executable models enable systematic evaluation of system designs prior to implementation and deployment.
Turing lectureThe computer science of concurrency: the early years
Leslie Lamport is the recipient of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
Future internets escape the simulator
- Mark Berman,
- Piet Demeester,
- Jae Woo Lee,
- Kiran Nagaraja,
- Michael Zink,
- Didier Colle,
- Dilip Kumar Krishnappa,
- Dipankar Raychaudhuri,
- Henning Schulzrinne,
- Ivan Seskar,
- Sachin Sharma
Future Internet testbeds permit experiments not possible in today's public Net or commercial cloud services.
IllumiRoom: immersive experiences beyond the TV screen
IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept system that surrounds a television with projected light, bringing video games, and film experiences out of the TV screen and into the real world. IllumiRoom uses 3D scanning and projected light to change the appearance ...
Q&A: The Path to Clean Data
Michael Stonebraker on Ingres, Postgres, dividing his time between academia and start-ups, and why "one size fits none."
