XRDS, Volume 19

Volume 19, Number 1, Fall 2012

Letter from the editors

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  Peter Kinnaird, Inbal Talgam-Cohen:
  Announcing the XRDS blog. 5

Inbox

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  Inbox. 6

INIT

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  Andrew Cron, Huy L. Nguyen, Aditya G. Parameswaran:
  Big data. 7-8

Benefit

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  Daniel Gooch:
  ACM Author-Izer. 9

Advice

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  Anjul Bhambhri:
  Six tips for students interested in big data analytics. 9

Updates

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  Ben Deverett:
  Creativity and computing: an ACM student chapter initiative. 10

Blogs

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  Matthew Kay, Dimitris Mitropoulos, Wolfgang Richter, Lora Oehlberg, Lea Rosen:
  Blogs. 11-13

Features

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  Jelani Nelson:
  Sketching and streaming algorithms for processing massive data. 14-19
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  Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Jerome P. Reiter:
  Big privacy: protecting confidentiality in big data. 20-23
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  Ronitt Rubinfeld:
  Taming big probability distributions. 24-28
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  Jeffrey D. Ullman:
  Designing good MapReduce algorithms. 30-34
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  Yanpei Chen, Andrew Ferguson, Brian Martin, Andrew Wang, Patrick Wendell:
  Big data and internships at Cloudera. 35-37
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  Aditya G. Parameswaran:
  An interview with Surajit Chaudhuri. 38-39
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  Raghotham Murthy, Rajat Goel:
  Peregrine: low-latency queries on Hive warehouse data. 40-43
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  Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey, Chen Li:
  Big data platforms: what's next? 44-49
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  Jeffrey Heer, Sean Kandel:
  Interactive analysis of big data. 50-54
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  B. Aditya Prakash:
  Propagation and immunization in large networks. 56-59
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  John Langford:
  Parallel machine learning on big data. 60-62
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  Cliburn Chan:
  Big data in computational biology. 64-68
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  Edward Z. Yang, Robert J. Simmons:
  Profile Jeff Dean: Big data at Google. 69

Labz

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  Martin Dittus:
  The centre for advanced spatial analysis at University College London, London, UK. 70-71

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  Automated DNA sequencers. 71

Hello world

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  Colin J. Ihrig:
  Finding yourself using geolocation and the Google Maps API. 72-74

Online features

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  Broderick Causley:
  The secret behind the Luhn-ie. 81-82
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  Dario Bonino, Luigi De Russis:
  Mastering real-time big data with stream processing chains. 83-86

Volume 19, Number 2, Winter 2012

Letter from the editors

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  Peter Kinnaird, Inbal Talgam-Cohen:
  Are you a good match for XRDS?. 5

Inbox

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  Around the web. 6

INIT

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  Shikoh Gitau, Nithya Sambasivan:
  Information technology and international development. 7

Advice

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  Vaggelis Giannikas:
  Blogging: 5 tips for your success. 8

Benefit

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  Daniel Gooch:
  ACM student volunteers. 8

Updates

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  Ben Deverett:
  Student chapter excellence: what makes a successful student chapter? 9

News

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  Michael Zuba:
  Harvard undergraduates earn silver medal in ACM-ICPC. 10-11

Blogs

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  Wolfgang Richter, Dimitris Mitropoulos:
  Blogs. 12-14

Features

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  Atanu Garai:
  Seven factors for designing successful mHealth projects. 16-19
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  Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne:
  Designing and developing an open source medical informatics module. 20-23
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  Sheena Lewis Erete:
  Crime prevention technologies in low-income communities. 24-26
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  Arjumand Younos:
  Online education for developing contexts. 27-29
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  Nithya Sambasivan:
  ICTD at the University of California Berkeley. 30-35
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  Sumitra Nair:
  A social scientist sits among ICTD workers. 36-39
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  Nithya Sambasivan:
  Voices in ICT for development. 40-44
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  Samantha Merritt:
  Lessons and opportunities in ICT4D: three things I did not know before I started my research. 46-49
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  Kathleen Diga:
  Facing the African ICTD academic divide. 50-55
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  Mark Kamau, Angela Crandall, Kagonya Awori:
  User experience practices in Nairobi's iHub community. 56-60
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  Angela Crandall, Rhoda Omenya:
  Research at Nairobi's iHub: discovery and sharing. 58
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  Ryan Kelly:
  Matthew Kam: Technology, impact and development. 61

Labz

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  Jonathan Kola:
  D-Lab-ICT: spreading ICT innovation: Cambridge, Massachusetts. 62-63

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  ICT for education. 63

Hello world

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  Marinka Zitnik:
  Iterative numerical methods for nonlinear systems. 64-66

Volume 19, Number 3, Spring 2013

Scientific Computing - Letter from the editors

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  Peter Kinnaird, Inbal Talgam-Cohen:
  'Information wants to be free'. 4-5

INIT

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  Nick Knight, Jack Poulson:
  Scientific computing. 7

Advice

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  Santosh Kumar Kalwar:
  How to review CS papers. 8

Benefit

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  Daniel Gooch:
  Student contests. 8

Updates

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  Ben Deverett:
  Nairobi-Kenya ACM-W student chapter: the challenges and rewards of building a new student chapter. 9

Blogs

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  Lea Rosen:
  Drones and the digital panopticon. 10
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  Dimitris Mitropoulos:
  Data security in the cloud environment. 11

Features

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  V. Balaji:
  Scientific computing in the age of complexity. 12-17
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  Heidi Thornquist, Eric R. Keiter, Sivasankaran Rajamanickam:
  Electrical modeling and simulation for stockpile stewardship. 18-22
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  Gregory A. Newman:
  A look inside the earth: geophysical imaging of the subsurface. 23-27
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  Jeff R. Hammond:
  Challenges and methods in large-scale computational chemistry applications. 28-31
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  David F. Gleich:
  Expanders, tropical semi-rings, and nuclear norms: oh my! 32-36
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  E. Jason Riedy, David A. Bader:
  Massive streaming data analytics: a graph-based approach. 37-43
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  Noah A. Smith, André F. T. Martins:
  Linguistic structure prediction with the sparseptron. 44-48
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  JeeWhan Choi, Richard W. Vuduc:
  How much (execution) time and energy does my algorithm cost? 49-51
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  Paul Marshall, Henry M. Tufo, Kate Keahey:
  High-performance computing and the cloud: a match made in heaven or hell? 52-57
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  Matan Gavish, David L. Donoho, Amos Onn:
  Dream applications of verifiable computational results. 58-61
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  Adrian Scoica, Arthur S. Bland:
  Profile Arthur S. Bland: high performance at Oak Ridge laboratory. 62

Labz

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  Anshul Vikram Pandey:
  Keio-NUS CUTE center: Singapore. 64-65

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  Supercomputers. 65

Hello world

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  Marinka Zitnik:
  Matrix function: a "VIP" in linear algebra and its applications. 66-67

Volume 19, Number 4, Summer 2013

Creativity + Computer Science Letter from the editors

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  Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Peter Kinnaird:
  Money and power in academic publishing. 5-6

Publisher's corner

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  Scott E. Delman:
  Information wants to be useful. 7-9

Inbox

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  INBOX. 10

INIT

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  Nick DePalma, David Robert:
  Creativity + Computer Science. 11

Benefit

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  Casey Fiesler:
  The crossroads community. 12

Advice

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  Vaggelis Giannikas:
  Facing your supervisor. 12

Updates

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  Ben Deverett:
  More than just computer science: creative activities at ACM student chapters. 13

Blogs

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  Gidi Nave, Arefin Huq:
  Blogs. 14-15

Features

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  David Cope:
  The well-programmed clavier: style in computer music composition. 16-20
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  Steven Dow, Burr Settles:
  Modeling online creative collaborations. 21-25
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  Casey Fiesler:
  The chilling tale of copyright law in online creative communities. 26-29
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  Michael O'Brien:
  Running rivers. 30-33
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  Brian O'Neill:
  Making a scene: people and artificial intelligence improvising together. 34-38
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  Adrian Scoica:
  Profile Ken Museth: a career shaped by creativity. 39
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  Michael Cook:
  Creativity in code: generating rules for video games. 40-43
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  Stephen Coy:
  Kodu game lab, a few lessons learned. 44-47
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  Michael Zuba, Nick DePalma:
  Computational origami: a creative blend of mathematics and art. 48-51

Hello world

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  Robert Aboukhalil:
  Using the Twitter API to mine the Twitterverse. 52-55

Labz

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  Mohammad Arif:
  Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Technology Laboratory (AIART lab): National Taipei University, Taiwan. 56-57

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  Graphics editing software. 57