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A Purpose-Built Global Network: Google's Move to SDN
A discussion with Amin Vahdat, David Clark, and Jennifer Rexford.
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Dismantling the Barriers to Entry
We have to choose to build a Web that is accessible to everyone.
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Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market
Assessing legal and technical solutions to secure HTTPS.
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The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye
How good security at the NSA could have stopped him.
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The Antifragile Organization
Embracing failure to improve resilience and maximize availability.
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Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure
A discussion with Jesse Robbins, Kripa Krishnan, John Allspaw, and Tom Limoncelli.
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Weathering the Unexpected
Failures happen, and resilience drills help organizations prepare for them.
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ACM CTO Roundtable on Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
Finding solutions as growth and fragmentation complicate mobile device support.
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Arrogance in Business Planning
Technology business plans that assume no competition — ever.
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Passing a Language Through the Eye of a Needle
How the embeddability of Lua impacted its design.
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Collaboration in System Administration
For sysadmins, solving problems usually involves collaborating with others. How can we make it more effective?
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The Theft of Business Innovation: An ACM-BCS Roundtable on Threats to Global Competitiveness
These days, cybercriminals are looking to steal more than just banking information.
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Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33!
To move forward with programming languages we must first break free from the tyranny of ASCII.
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Computers in Patient Care: The Promise and the Challenge
Information technology has the potential to radically transform health care. Why has progress been so slow?
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Global IT Management: Structuring for Scale, Responsiveness, and Innovation
To succeed on a global scale, businesses should focus on a trio of key elements.
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Toward Energy-Efficient Computing
What will it take to make server-side computing more energy efficient?
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Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk
As the sophistication of wiretapping technology grows, so too do the risks it poses to our privacy and security.
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Probing Biomolecular Machines with Graphics Processors
GPU acceleration and other computer performance increases will offer critical benefits to biomedical science.
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Browser Security: Lessons from Google Chrome
To shield the browser from attacks, Google Chrome developers eyed three key problems.
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