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A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World
How Coverity built a bug-finding tool, and a business, around the unlimited supply of bugs in software systems.
Clay Shirky: Doing work, or Doing Work?
In a keynote delivered to this year's ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), author and academic Clay Shirky captured the distinction between work and Work.
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David Wheeler, the Inventor of the Wheeler Jump, is Born
David Wheeler, who in 1951 introduced the concept of the subroutine to computer programming, is born. He concentrated his work on assembly programming language and invoked the subroutine in his Wheeler jump technique. For this…
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A team of researchers at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) has filled the trunk of an Audi TTS with computers and GPS receivers, transforming it into a vehicle that drives itself. This …
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