Home → Magazine Archive → September 2013 (Vol. 56, No. 9)
Table of Contents
PDFPage 7
Pages 8-9
Big Data Is 'Buzzword Du Jour;' CS Academics 'Have the Best Job'
Pages 10-11Magnetic Diversion For Electronic Switches
'Chameleon processors' could function as programmable logic or nonvolatile memory.
Pages 13-15Novel architecture allows programmers to quickly reconfigure network resource usage.
Pages 16-19Privacy issues can evaporate when embarrassing content does likewise.
Pages 20-22Pages 28-30
Software and Souls; Programs and Packages
How can historians tell stories about software without focusing solely on the code itself?
Pages 31-34The conversation for action gives a framework for completing professional actions effectively.
Pages 35-37Research and Practice: The Curious Case of 'Small' Researchers-Practitioners
Pages 38-40An Interview with Hadi Partovi
The Code.org founder discusses his first program, inspirations, and "seizing the day."
Pages 41-45Pages 46-53
Watch out for these pitfalls that can prevent Web application scaling.
Pages 54-59An Overview of Non-Uniform Memory Access
NUMA becomes more common because memory controllers get close to execution units on microprocessors.
Pages 59-54How to create and resolve discomfort for a thrilling and memorable experience.
Pages 66-73Computing with Real Numbers, from Archimedes to Turing and Beyond
How to test the usefulness of computation for understanding and predicting continuous phenomena.
Pages 74-83Exploring autonomous systems and the agents that control them.
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