Communications of the ACM
Quantifying Computing Power and Innovation
Rapid increases in chip speed and power have fueled innovation in many industries, but the future trajectory of that progress…
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What Is a Chief Security Officer Good For?
Security requires more than an off-the-shelf solution.
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Code Hoarding
Committing to commits, and the beauty of summarizing graphs.
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Pickled Patches
On repositories of patches and tension between security professionals and in-house developers.
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Outsourcing Responsibility
What do you do when your debugger fails you?
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This Is the Foo Field
The meaning of bits and avoiding upgrade bogdowns.
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A Lesson in Resource Management
Waste not memory, want not memory — unless it doesn't matter.
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Cherry-Picking and the Scientific Method
Software is supposed be a part of computer science, and science demands proof.
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