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The Effects of Mixing Machine Learning and Human Judgment
Collaboration between humans and machines does not necessarily lead to better outcomes.
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Surviving Software Dependencies
Software reuse is finally here but comes with risks.
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DAML: The Contract Language of Distributed Ledgers
A discussion between Shaul Kfir and Camille Fournier.
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Industry-Scale Knowledge Graphs: Lessons and Challenges
Five diverse technology companies show how it's done.
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Research for Practice: The DevOps Phenomenon
An executive crash course.
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Overly Attached
Know when to let go of emotional attachment to your work.
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Extract, Shoehorn, and Load
Data doesn't always fit nicely into a new home.
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The Top 10 Things Executives Should Know About Software
Software acumen is the new norm.
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Access Controls and Healthcare Records: Who Owns the Data?
A discussion with David Evans, Richard McDonald, and Terry Coatta.
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Garbage Collection as a Joint Venture
A collaborative approach to reclaiming memory in heterogeneous software systems.
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How to Create a Great Team Culture (and Why It Matters)
Build safety, share vulnerability, and establish purpose.
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Research for Practice: Troubling Trends in Machine-Learning Scholarship
Some ML papers suffer from flaws that could mislead the public and stymie future research.
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Achieving Digital Permanence
The many challenges to maintaining stored information and ways to overcome them.
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Online Event Processing
Achieving consistency where distributed transactions have failed.
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Net Neutrality: Unexpected Solution to Blockchain Scaling
Cloud-delivery networks could dramatically improve blockchains' scalability, but clouds must be provably neutral first.
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