XRDS, Volume 17

Volume 17, Number 1, Fall 2010

The Changing Face of Programming
Letter from the editor

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  Chris Harrison:
  Next steps for XRDS: organic growth. 4

Inbox

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  Inbox. 5

INIT: issue introduction

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  James Stanier:
  Programming the future. 6

Benefit

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  Daniel Gooch:
  MentorNet. 7

Advice

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  Jason Thibodeau:
  Five programming tips: start your coding career. 7

Updates

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  Vaggelis Giannikas:
  ACM chapter news: from Ontario to Hyderabad. 8-9

Features

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  Jeffrey L. Poet, A. Malcolm Campbell, Todd T. Eckdahl, Laurie J. Heyer:
  Bacterial computing. 10-15
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  Masami Hagiya, Fumiaki Tanaka, Ibuki Kawamata:
  IT for synthetic biology and DNA nanotechnology. 16-21
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  Bryan Catanzaro, Kurt Keutzer:
  Parallel computing with patterns and frameworks. 22-27
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  John M. Mellor-Crummey, William Gropp, Maurice Herlihy:
  Teaching parallel programming: a roundtable discussion. 28-30
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  Jason Ansel, Cy P. Chan:
  PetaBricks. 32-37
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  David L. Largent:
  Getting and staying agile. 38-41
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  Michael S. Bernstein:
  Profile Armando Solar-Lezama: programming machines to program bits. 42
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  Michael S. Bernstein:
  Profile John Resig: origins of the JavaScript ninja. 44-45

Hello world

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  Dmitry Batenkov:
  Hands-on introduction to genetic programming. 46-47

Labz

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  Gideon Juve:
  Information Sciences Institute: Marina del Rey, California. 48-50

Back

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  James Stanier:
  Punch cards vs Java. 49

Volume 17, Number 2, Winter 2010

Letter from the editor

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  Chris Harrison:
  Names on the page: XRDS, networking and you. 4

Inbox

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  Inbox. 5

INIT: Issue Introduction

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  Michael S. Bernstein, Inbal Talgam-Cohen:
  Human computation and crowdsourcing. 6

Benefit

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  Daniel Gooch:
  ACM career and job center. 7

Advice

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  Matt Might:
  The academic job search: How to prepare key documents. 7

Updates

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  Vaggelis Giannikas:
  Establishing an ACM student chapter: activity ideas for university groups. 8

Features

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  Lukas Biewald:
  Massive multiplayer human computation for fun, money, and survival. 10-15
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  Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis:
  Analyzing the Amazon Mechanical Turk marketplace. 16-21
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  Aniket Kittur:
  Crowdsourcing, collaboration and creativity. 22-26
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  Robert C. Miller, Greg Little, Michael S. Bernstein, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Lydia B. Chilton, Max Goldman, John Joseph Horton, Rajeev Nayak:
  Heads in the cloud. 27-31
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  Jason Dyer:
  Mathematics for the masses. 32-33
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  Michael Mitzenmacher:
  An introduction to human-guided search. 34-35
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  David A. Shamma:
  Beyond freebird. 36-38
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  Michael Six Silberman, Lilly Irani, Joel Ross:
  Ethics and tactics of professional crowdwork. 39-43
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  Ran Halprin, Moni Naor:
  Games for extracting randomness. 44-48
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  Robert J. Simmons:
  Profile Luis von Ahn: ReCaptcha, games with a purpose. 49
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  Nelson Zhang:
  Running the turk: interview with Amazon.com vice president Sharon Chiarella and PR manager Kay Kinton. 50-51

Hello world

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  Dmitry Batenkov:
  Programmatic access to Wikipedia. 52-53

Labz

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  Jason Wiese:
  FXPAL---an interdisciplinary lab: Palo Alto, California. 54-55

Back

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  James Stanier:
  The brain. 55

Volume 17, Number 3, Spring 2011

The Fate of Money - Letter from the editor

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  Chris Harrison:
  Four down. 3

Inbox

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  Inbox. 4

INIT: issue introduction

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  Malay Bhattacharyya, Vaggelis Giannikas:
  Behold a pail of milk: the future of banking, currency, and e-commerce. 5

Benefit

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  Daniel Gooch:
  Special interest groups. 6

Advice

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  David Richeson:
  Letters of recommendation. 6

Updates

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  Vaggelis Giannikas:
  Competitions for chapters: the ACM student chapter excellence award. 7

Features

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  Nicole Immorlica:
  Why I don't rob banks for a living. 8-10
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  Brian Keegan, Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Dmitri Williams, Jaideep Srivastava, Noshir S. Contractor:
  What can gold farmers teach us about criminal networks? 11-15
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  Polo Chau:
  Catching bad guys with graph mining. 16-18
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  Mark Harrison:
  The 'Internet of Things' and commerce. 19-22
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  Nikolai V. Hovanov, James W. Kolari, Mikhail V. Sokolov:
  The problem of money as a measuring stick. 23-27

Features: interview

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  James Stanier:
  An interview with Greg Schwartz. 28-30

Hello world

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  Dmitry Batenkov:
  Boosting productivity with the Boost Graph Library. 31-32

Labz

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  Svetlana Yarosh:
  IBM Research-Almaden: San Jose, California. 33-34

Back

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  James Stanier:
  E-Shopping. 34

Volume 17, Number 4, Summer 2011

Letter from the editor

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  Chris Harrison:
  Mixing things up. 3

Inbox

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  Inbox. 4

INIT

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  Jon Froehlich:
  Every bit has a cost. 5

Benefit

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  Daniel Gooch:
  Email services at ACM. 6

Advice

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  Ben Deverett:
  Tips for going green. 6

Updates

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  Vaggelis Giannikas:
  What a wonderful world: ACM student chapters around the globe. 7

Features

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  Bill Weihl, Erik Teetzel, Jimmy Clidaras, Christopher Malone, Joe Kava, Michael Ryan:
  Sustainable data centers. 8-12
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  Prabal Dutta:
  Sustainable sensing for a smarter planet. 14-20
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  Leo Bonanni:
  Sourcemap: eco-design, sustainable supply chains, and radical transparency. 22-26
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  Ethan Schaffer:
  GrowFood.org: sustainability, food, technology, and social networking. 27-28
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  Dan Sturges:
  Let's split! 30-34
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  Steven Letendre, Willet Kempton, Jasna Tomic:
  The networked vehicle 1.0: integrating electric cars with the nation's power grid. 35-38
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  Tawanna Dillahunt, Jennifer Mankoff:
  In the dark, out in the cold. 39-41
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  Johnny Rodgers, Lyn Bartram, Rob Woodbury:
  Challenges in sustainable human-home interaction. 42-46
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  Alex Laskey, Ogi Kavazovic:
  OPOWER. 47-51
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  Tiffany Holmes:
  Dialogical encounters: art and energy awareness via eco-visualization. 52-55

Hello world

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  Dmitry Batenkov:
  Web maps of renewable energy. 56-57

Labz

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  Gideon Juve:
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Berkeley, California. 58-59

Back

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  James Stanier:
  Green technology. 59

Profile

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  Robert J. Simmons:
  Rob Bernard: Microsoft's green commitment. 65