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The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
Hitting a nerve with field-programmable gate arrays.
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Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future
The evolution of tricky user interfaces.
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Is Persistent Memory Persistent?
A simple and inexpensive test of failure-atomic update mechanisms.
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The Best Place to Build a Subway
Building projects despite (and because of) existing complex systems.
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Opening Up the Baseboard Management Controller
If the CPU is the brain of the board, the BMC is the brain stem.
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The Reliability of Enterprise Applications
Understanding enterprise reliability.
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Hack for Hire
Investigating the emerging black market of retail email account hacking services.
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API Practices If You Hate Your Customers
Application programming interfaces speak louder than words.
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Identity by Any Other Name
The complex cacophony of intertwined systems.
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Research for Practice: Edge Computing
Scaling resources within multiple administrative domains.
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Corp to Cloud: Google's Virtual Desktops
How Google moved its virtual desktops to the cloud.
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Research for Practice: FPGAs in Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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