Decentraland: The Alleged Decentralization of Blockchain Applications
Breaking down the blockchain.
Systems and Networking
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Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act
FoundationDB, as explored in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store," by Jingyu Zhou et al., pioneered the development of a scalable distributed key-value store with strong consistency guarantees.
Bob Metcalfe, who co-invented Ethernet networking technology, continues to take on new challenges as a computational engineer.
Beyond Passwords: The Path to Stronger Authentication Mechanisms
The inherent risks associated with passwords stem from their very nature.
Linking IT’s Energy Consumption to Carbon Emissions
New guidelines aim to measure, and ultimately reduce, the digital impact of the enterprise on the environment.
A Pioneer in Participatory Design Turns 80
Christiane Floyd continues to consider the philosophical and ethical concerns of computer science.
Spyware Lurks in Android Smartphones
Google's decision to allow its operating system to install third-party apps makes Android smartphones targets for spyware.
400 Years of Mechanical Calculating Machines
Germany is celebrating the 400th birthday of Schickard's "calculating clock."
Researchers Flesh Out Biocomputing
Drawing Intelligence from actual brain cells could deliver human-like cognition in diverse fields.
Disentangling Hype from Practicality: On Realistically Achieving Quantum Advantage
What are the promising applications to realize quantum advantage?
Toward Basing Cryptography on the Hardness of EXP
We show that the only "gap" toward getting (infinitely-often) OWFs from the assumption that EXP ≠ BPP is the seemingly "minor" technical gap between two-sided error and errorless average-case hardness of the MKtP problem.
ChatGPT, Can You Tell Me a Story?
An exercise in challenging the true creativity of generative AI.
AlphaFold Spreads through Protein Science
Based on machine learning, DeepMind's code now lies at the heart of a variety of protein-structure tools and workflows. It may ultimately be replaced by models that are bigger but faster.
Locking Down Secure Open Source Software
Can even secure open source software ever be considered truly safe?
Updates, Threats, and Risk Management
Revisiting a recent column considering security updates.
Ethics as a Participatory and Iterative Process
Facilitating ethical reflection, inquiry, and deliberation.
Reinventing Backend Subsetting at Google
Designing an algorithm with reduced connection churn that could replace deterministic subsetting.
Development Use Cases for Semantics-Driven Modeling Languages
Choosing underlying semantic theories and definition techniques must closely follow intended use cases for the modeling language.
From Code Complexity Metrics to Program Comprehension
Understanding code depends not only on the code but also on the brain.
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