Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects
Acquiring developer-prized practical skills, knowledge, and experiences.
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Modern Debugging: The Art of Finding a Needle in a Haystack
Systematic use of proven debugging approaches and tools lets programmers address even apparently intractable bugs.
The Collaborative Organization of Knowledge
Why Wikipedia's remarkable growth is sustainable.
Reflections on Trusting Trust Revisited
Security is often described as a weak-link phenomenon. Ken Thompson in his 1983 Turing Award Lecture [3] described how a compiler could be modified to plant a Trojan horse into the system’s login authentication program so that it would accept a known password. In addition, the C compiler could be altered to propagate this change […]
The Decay and Failures of Web References
Attempting to determine how quickly archival information becomes outdated.
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