Wanted: Catalysts for growth

Wanted: Programmers for Handheld Devices

T he pace of change in computer technology can be breathtaking. Frequently, this makes it difficult for programmers to maintain skills that are in demand. Nowhere is this more apparent than in one of the newest and most dynamic segments of the computer industry: hand-held devices and wireless technology. The use of handheld devices is growing rapidly, as is the demand for applications that run ...

Wanted: Systems Abstractions for SDN

This paper presents a case for applying the principles of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) to middleboxes and end hosts. The challenges of configuring networking on network hosts resemble those addressed by SDN – numerous multi-vendor components, each with its own syntax and idiosyncratic corner cases, must be orchestrated smoothly. We have developed a prototype called NativeClick, a novel use...

Diagnosis Wanted

Wanted: guidelines for reporting correlations.

Recently (1–3), there have been guidelines published for authors regarding what and how statistics should be reported when describing the differences between groups of observations. There seems to be a paucity of such guidance with respect to describing the correlation between groups of observations. Of particular concern to me is the way in which Pearson product-moment correlations are reporte...

Wanted—Skulls

In order to determine the characters of a race, it is necessary that comparison should be made of at least twenty skulls. It is further desirable to have as many of the bones of the skeleton as possible, as comparison of pelvic and long bones give important results in determining race peculiarities. The Hunterian Museum, now under the direction of Professor Flower, F. E. S., is especially inter...