• Why is data-intensive computing relevant to cloud computing? • Why is MapReduce programming model important for data-intensive computing? • What is MapReduce? • How is its support structure different from traditional structures? 6/23/2010 Bina Ramamurthy 2010 4Relevance to WIC • Data-intensiveness is the main driving force behind the growth of the cloud concept • Cloud computing is necessary to address the scale and other issues of data-intensive computing • Cloud is turning computing into an everyday gadget • Women are indeed experts at managing and effectively using gadgets!!??

It was six men of Indostan, To learning much inclined, Who went to see the elephant, (Though all of them were blind.) That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The first approached the elephant, And, happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: &

variables. Finally, there was some evidence that implicit self-esteem measures are sensitive to context. The implications of these findings for the future of implicit self-esteem research are discussed. According to Indian folklore, there were once six blind men who had heard of the animal called

The problem of global imbalances and the persistence of the U.S. deficit have been the subject of wildly differing interpretations. Among the most prominent are the deficient U.S. savings view, the new economy view, the global savings glut view, and the Sino-American codependency view. These four interpretations have different policy implications and suggest

“Blind Men and the Elephant ” (Blimey) framework in which we exploit this structure, and demonstrate how problems in a MapReduce system can be diagnosed by corroborating the multiple viewpoints. More specifically, we present algorithms within the Blimey framework based on OS-level performance counters

... structure. As Levin has addressed (Levin 1985), the decomposition of verbs is proposed for the purposes of accounting for systematic semantic-syntactic correspondences. This results in a series of problems for MT systems: inflexible verb sense definitions; difficulty in handling metaphor and new usages; imprecise lexical selection and insufficient system coverage. It seems one approach is to apply probability methods and statistical models for some of these problems. However, the question reminds: has PSR exhausted the potential of the knowledge-based approach? If not, are there any alternatives that can improve the handling of these problems? We suggest an alternative that represents verb semantic knowledge and accounts for not only fine-tuned systematic semantic-syntactic correspondences, but also semantic-interpretation correspondences. A verb is not represented by a predicate or simple primitives, but by a set of semantic components that are sensitive to the syntactic altern

Reliability is even more important in object-oriented programming than elsewhere. This article shows how to reduce bugs by building software components on the basis of carefully designed contracts. 40 s object-oriented techniques steadily gain ground in the world of software development. users and prospective users of these techniques are clam-oring more and more loudly for a “methodology ” of object-oriented software construction- or at least for some methodological guidelines. This article presents such guidelines, whose main goal is to help improve the reliability

What was noted by E. J. hanger (1978) remains true today: that much of contemporary psychological research is based on the assumption that people are consciously and systematically processing incoming information in order to construe and interpret their world and to plan and engage in courses of action. As did E. J. hanger, the authors question this assumption. First, they review evidence that the ability to exercise such conscious, intentional control is actually quite limited, so that most of moment-to-moment psychological life must occur through nonconscious means if it is to occur at all. The authors then describe the different possible mechanisms that produce automatic, environmental control over these various phenomena and review evidence establishing both the existence of these mechanisms as well as their consequences for judgments, emotions, and

…Truth [is] being involved in an eternal conversation about things that matter, conducted with passion and discipline…truth is not in the conclusions so much as in the process of conversation itself…if you want to be in truth you must be in conversation. Parker Palmer

It is proposed that motivation may affect reasoning through reliance on a biased set of cognitive processes—that is, strategies for accessing, constructing, and evaluating beliefs. The motivation to be accurate enhances use of those beliefs and strategies that are considered most appropriate, whereas the motivation to arrive at particular conclusions enhances use of those that are considered most likely to yield the desired conclusion. There is considerable evidence that people are more likely to arrive at conclusions that they want to arrive at, but their ability to do so is constrained by their ability to construct seemingly reasonable justifications for these conclusions. These ideas can account for a wide variety of research concerned with motivated reasoning. The notion that goals or motives affect reasoning has a long and controversial history in social psychology. The propositions that motives may affect perceptions (Erdelyi, 1974), attitudes (Festinger, 1957), and attributions (Heider, 1958) have been put forth by some psychologists and challenged by others. Al-though early researchers and theorists took it for granted that motivation may cause people to make self-serving attributions