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Is Data Science Your Next Career?

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Submitted by krisgrey on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 10:35

Steven Cherry: Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum’s “Techwise Conversations.”

In a recent podcast, I was surprised to learn there were 93 000 data scientists registered with Kaggle, the site that creates competitions among them and helps award freelance contracts. I’m not the only one. The article in The Atlantic that brought Kaggle to our attention had a parenthetical exclamation: “Who knew there were that many data scientists in the world!”

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Introduction to the Guidelines for Handling Plagiarism Complaints

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Submitted by krisgrey on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 10:28

With so much research now available on the Web, and because the highly searchable nature of electronic content has made it easier to detect unacknowledged copying of original text, the number of reported incidents of alleged plagiarism has been growing.
The PSPB Operations Manual now provides helpful and detailed guidelines for identifying and handling instances of plagiarism.

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The Scoop on Plagiarism

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Submitted by krisgrey on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 10:24

The topic of plagiarism and related issues have received increasing visibility and significance recently. Within the past year, it has been reported that very significant percentages of students have admitted they have plagiarized the work of others, graduate students have been expelled, and university faculty fired. This is thus a topic of great importance to all researchers. The IEEE has recently updated and clarified its policies with respect to plagiarism and the related issue of multiple submissions.

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How to Get Your SIGGRAPH Paper Rejected

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Submitted by krisgrey on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 10:22

Jim Kajiya, SIGGRAPH 93 Papers Chair
Everyone knows what acceptable SIGGRAPH papers look like: just look in the proceedings. When one only sees the accepted papers and not the rejected ones, it is easy to get the wrong impression of what it is that SIGGRAPH likes and doesn't like.

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Historical Reflections The IBM Pc: from Beige Box to Industry standard

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Submitted by krisgrey on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 10:18

Thomas Haigh

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Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

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Submitted by krisgrey on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 10:13

Biography

Frederick P. Brooks Jr. was born in 1931 of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, parents. He received the A.B in Physics from Duke University in 1953, and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1956, under Howard Aiken.

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What We Can Learn from Steve Jobs

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Submitted by krisgrey on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 10:12

San Murugesan, BRITE Professional Services, Australia

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John McCarthy

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Submitted by krisgrey on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 10:08

Paul Hyman
Winner of the 1971 A.M. Turing Award, John McCarthy was a founder of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Lisp programming language.
The FIELD OF artificial intelligence (AI) was founded at a conference at Dartmouth College in 1956, with John McCarthy as one of its influential attendees. McCarthy subsequently expanded on the notion of logical AI, writing what appears to be the first paper on the topic, “Programs With Common Sense,” in 1958.

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An Interview with Stephen A. Cook

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Submitted by krisgrey on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 10:01

Philip L. Frana
The Ch arl es Babb age Instit ute holds one of the world’s largest collections of research- grade oral history interviews relating to the history of computers, software, and networking. Most of the 400 interviews have been conducted in the context of specific research projects, which facilitate the interviewer’s extensive preparation and often suggest specific lines of questions. Transcripts from these oral histories are a key source in understanding the history of computing, since traditional historical sources are frequently incomplete.

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Dennis Ritchie

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Submitted by krisgrey on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 09:55

Paul Hyman
Colleagues recall the creator of C and codeveloper Unix, an unassuming but brilliant man who enjoyed playing practical jokes on his coworkers.
Of the three giants in the computer industry who passed away last October, Steve Jobs was easily the most recognizable one. And that is exactly how Dennis Ritchie preferred it.
Even though much of today’s digital world is built from tools he created, Ritchie, who authored the C programming language and cocreated Unix with Ken Thompson, never sought the spotlight.

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