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Debugging Incidents in Google’s Distributed Systems
How experts debug production issues in complex distributed systems.
The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
Hitting a nerve with field-programmable gate arrays.
What Do Agile, Lean, and ITIL Mean to DevOps?
The value of learning skillsets within a trio of disciplines and the role each plays in DevOps.
The story of the development of a sound, static method for worst-case execution-time analysis.
Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure in Cryptocurrencies
Software weaknesses in cryptocurrencies create unique challenges in responsible revelations.
A Decade of Social Bot Detection
Bots increasingly tamper with political elections and economic discussions. Tracing trends in detection strategies and key suggestions on how to win the fight.
MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts
We identify gas-focused vulnerabilities and present MadMax: a static program analysis technique that automatically detects gas-focused vulnerabilities with very high confidence.
Technical Perspective: Two for the Price of One
"Lower Bounds for External Memory Integer Sorting via Network Coding" proves a remarkable connection between how efficiently computers can perform sorting and transmitting.
Lower Bounds for External Memory Integer Sorting via Network Coding
In this paper, we present a tight conditional lower bound on the complexity of external memory sorting of integers.
Technical Perspective: Analyzing Smart Contracts with MadMax
"MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts," by Neville Grech et al., effectively discovers a new smart contract vulnerability, and proposes a detection approach based on a static analysis.
Durable, Dense, and Efficient: The Promise of DNA Data Storage
Is DNA the future of data storage?
The RISC-V open standard instruction-set architecture can improve cybersecurity.
Discovery: User Manual of the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World
A rare find: the user manual of the oldest surviving computer in the world, the Zuse Z4 relay machine (1945).
Testing Asimov’s Idea for Power From Space
Isaac Asimov's notion of capturing energy in space and beaming it to the Earth’s surface faces its first orbital testing.
Teaching CS Undergrads Online to Work With Others Effectively
Orit Hazzan on the challenges of taking a CS soft skills class online after teaching it in a classroom for a decade.
Scientists and engineers cross the reality gap, transferring simulated evolution into real machines.
Virtual Collaboration in the Age of the Coronavirus
Videoconferencing apps took off during the COVID-19 lockdowns, but more efficient ways to collaborate virtually are waiting in the wings.
Shifting artificial intelligence to the "edge" of the network could transform computing . . . and everyday life.
A Recent Renaissance in Privacy Law
Considering the recent increased attention to privacy law issues amid the typically slow pace of legal change.
Autonomous Vehicle Safety: Lessons from Aviation
How more than 25years of experience with aviation safety-critical systems can be applied to autonomous vehicle systems.
Avalanches Make Us All Innovators
Avalanches generate enormous breakdowns. The practices of innovation adoption may be just what you need to resolve them.
Integrating Management Science Into the HPC Research Ecosystem
How management science benefits from High Performance Computing.
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