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BTW
2003
Springer
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14 years 21 days ago
Web Services: Distributed Applications Without Limits
: Web services technology is all about distributed computing. There is no fundamentally new basic concept behind this and related technologies. What is really new is the reach of W...
Frank Leymann
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
190views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
Augmented social cognition: using social web technology to enhance the ability of groups to remember, think, and reason
We are experiencing a new Social Web, where people share, communicate, commiserate, and conflict with each other. As evidenced by systems like Wikipedia, twitter, and delicious.co...
Ed H. Chi
VLDB
2002
ACM
125views Database» more  VLDB 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering
Automatic tuning has been an elusive goal for database technology for a long time and is becoming a pressing issue for modern E-services. This paper reviews and assesses the advan...
Gerhard Weikum, Axel Mönkeberg, Christof Hass...
TEI
2010
ACM
160views Hardware» more  TEI 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Think globally, build locally: a technological platform for low-cost, open-source, locally-assembled programmable bricks for edu
“Programmable bricks” are microcontroller-based devices that can be used in various educational projects, such as robotic prototypes, environmental sensing, and interactive ar...
Arnan Sipitakiat, Paulo Blikstein
JCDL
2005
ACM
87views Education» more  JCDL 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
To grow in wisdom: vannevar bush, information overload, and the life of leisure
It has been nearly sixty years since Vannevar Bush’s essay, “As We May Think,” was first published in The Atlantic Monthly, an article that foreshadowed and possibly invente...
David M. Levy