Pushing on String: The 'Don't Care' Region of Password Strength
Enterprises that impose stringent password-composition policies appear to suffer the same fate as those that do not.
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Apache Spark: A Unified Engine For Big Data Processing
This open source computing framework unifies streaming, batch, and interactive big data workloads to unlock new applications.
Actors linked to central others in networks are generally central, even as actors linked to powerful others are powerless.
Fair Use Prevails in Oracle v. Google
Two software giants continue with legal sparring after an initial judicial decision.
Growing Computer Science Education Into a STEM Education Discipline
Seeking to make computing education as available as mathematics or science education.
Considering the need to create new modes of interaction and approaches to assessment given a rapidly evolving academic realm.
Time to Reinspect the Foundations?
Questioning if computer science is outgrowing its traditional foundations.
Technical Perspective: FPGA Compute Acceleration Is First About Energy Efficiency
"A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services" presents a research deployment of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in a Microsoft Bing datacenter.
Diannao Family: Energy-Efficient Hardware Accelerators For Machine Learning
We introduce a series of hardware accelerators (i.e., the DianNao family) designed for Machine Learning (especially neural networks), with a special emphasis on the impact of memory on accelerator design, performance, and energy.
A Reconfigurable Fabric For Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
We describe a medium-scale deployment of a composable, reconfigurable hardware fabric on a bed of 1,632 servers, and measure its effectiveness in accelerating the ranking component of the Bing web search engine.
Technical Perspective: If I Could Only Design One Circuit . . .
"DianNao Family: Energy-Efficient Hardware Accelerators for Machine Learning" shows a deep understanding of both neural net implementations and the issues in computer architecture that arise when building an accelerator for them.
Globalization, Computing, and Their Political Impact
Globalization and automation provide huge benefits to society, but their adverse effects cannot and should not be ignored. As actors in and beneficiaries of this societal transformation, we have, I believe, a social responsibility that goes beyond our technical roles.
Cyber Defense Triad For Where Security Matters
Dramatically more trustworthy cyber security is a choice.
Seeking the programmer vote, an AI delivering a slogan like "Make Coding Great Again" could easily be seen as a threat.
We are reaching an exciting period in scientific discovery in which computation is as important as laboratory experiment and observation.
Wi-Fi Kiosks Replacing Payphones in Nyc
A move to provide free Internet services yields some unexpected consequences.
Surprise Comes Out of Black-Hole Studies: Error-Correcting Codes
Attempts to reconcile quantum information and gravity have yielded new types of error-correcting codes for proposed quantum computers.
The Greeks and the Romans carved letters in stone and these are still eminently readable over 2,000 years later. Newer media have not been around as long but I think it is arguable that the more recent media do not have the resilience of stone or baked clay.
It is rare for research studies in computing to be reproduced. This seems odd, since we have an advantage over science done in wet labs. There is no reason for us not to be leaders in practices that enable audit and reuse when technically and legally possible.
Exploring ways to push more data through a fiber one-tenth the thickness of the average human hair.
The Puzzle of Japanese Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Exploring how Japan's unique mixture of social, educational, and corporate practices influence entrepreneurial activity.
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