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News The researchers presented their ideas this week at the ACM SIGCOMM 2009, a communications conference held in Barcelona, Spain, according to an article published on MIT's Technology Review website. Microsoft researchers... [20 Aug 2009]
Spam and the Ongoing Battle for Safe Communications
White Paper According to the February, 2007, issue of the Communications of the ACM, the overall volume of spam has increased from 10%, in 1998, to 80%, today. Managing spam is an increasingly critical function for businesses of all... [01 Jul 2009]
ACM Significantly Improved User Experience With Google Site Search
White Paper ACM (Advanced Currency Markets) is a world leader in online currency and precious metal trading on the Foreign Exchange (FOREX) markets. Founded in 2002, the company places innovation, efficiency, and user friendliness... [22 Jun 2009]
Sarbanes-Oxley and Oracle E-Business Suite: Application Change Management Fundamentals for Compliance
White Paper Quest Stat ACM is an enterprise application change management solution that fulfills these requirements. This paper discussed the three key components required for effective Oracle E-Business Suite application change... [19 May 2009]
'If Google decided to misbehave there'd be big trouble'
Comment The winner of the 2008 ACM AM Turing Award for lasting and major technical contributions to the computing community was announced last month as Barbara Liskov, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [08 Apr 2009]
ACM - the copyright is provided at the end of the first page, ACM stands for Association for Computing Machinery
White Paper Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code and indirect overhead due to perturbation of caches. [02 Feb 2009]
IEEE-CS/ACM Computing Curricula - Software Engineering Volume
White Paper This paper reports on the IEEE-CS/ACM project and the guidance it will provide for developing undergraduate software engineering programs. An impediment to advancing the state of the software engineering discipline is... [03 Dec 2008]
A B.S. Degree in Informatics: Contextualizing Software Engineering Education
White Paper Currently, these philosophies fall into two main streams of thought: SE education based on mathematical and engineering principles (as in the McMaster undergraduate degree in SE) and SE education based on the topics that are... [03 Dec 2008]
Home Computer Security Awareness
White Paper In the Fall of 2004, with funding from the ACM CREU (Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates in Science and Engineering) program, a project on home computer security was started. Home computer security is... [06 Jul 2007]
IT jobs 'not hit by offshore outsourcing'
News The wide-ranging research by US IT industry body the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) found that while the annual job-loss rate attributable to offshore outsourcing is around two to three per cent of the IT... [27 Feb 2006]
Microsoft ups search investment in China
News In July 2005, for example, MSR Asia was responsible for 12 of the 17 papers Microsoft presented or co-presented at the weeklong ACM SIGIR 2005 Conference in Salvador, Brazil. Microsoft Research Asia (MSR Asia),... [31 Oct 2005]
Criminal IT: Should you trust the internet?
Comment Called Reflections On Trusting Trust, it was the acceptance speech delivered by Thompson when he collected an ACM award in 1984. Published in the August 1984 Communications of the ACM, it paints a scary... [27 Jan 2005]
A Possible Simplification of the Semantic Web Architecture
White Paper In the semantic web architecture, Web ontology languages are built on top of RDF(S). However, serious difficulties have arisen when trying to layer expressive ontology languages, like OWL, on top of RDF-Schema. [13 Jan 2005]
Observations From the Trenches of Electronic Government
White Paper Infrastructure, political mandate, and internal organization influence how a country manages e-government. E-gov goes by different names in different countries: In Hong Kong it is called "electronic service delivery"; in Australia it is... [05 Jan 2005]
E-voting: It's a bad idea, say computer scientists
News ACM said that a paper trail will provide a way to double-check what's happening inside machines from companies such as Diebold Election Systems and Sequoia Voting System - a feat that would not otherwise be possible. [28 Sep 2004]
