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IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
We have it easy, but do we have it right?
We show two severe problems with the state of the art in empirical computer system performance evaluation, observer effect and measurement context bias, and we outline the path to...
Todd Mytkowicz, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth, Pe...
ISCNZ
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Escalation in IT Projects: Can We Afford to Quit or do We Have to Continue?
: Many information technology (IT) projects fail. These projects are not within budget, not on time or do not deliver what was promised. Failures in IT projects are more common tha...
Urban Nuldén
SIGUCCS
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Because we have better things to do: automating common support tasks
As technology permeates more aspects of our everyday lives, greater demands are placed on information technology personnel. Lehigh University computing consultants have found thei...
Keith B. Erekson, Stephen G. Lewis
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Analysis of papers from twenty-five years of SIGIR conferences: what have we been doing for the last quarter of a century?
mes, abstracts and year of publication of all 853 papers published.1 We then applied Porter stemming and stopword removal to this text, represented terms from the elds with twice t...
Alan F. Smeaton, Gary Keogh, Cathal Gurrin, Kieran...
SIGCSE
1999
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Do we teach the right algorithm design techniques?
Algorithms have cometo be recognizedasthe cornerstone of computing. Surprisingly, there has been little research or discussion of general techniques for designing algorithms. Thou...
Anany Levitin