Practice – Page 13 – Communications of the ACM

Nov 1 2014

Evolution of the Product Manager

Better education needed to develop the discipline.

Ellen Chisa

Computing Applications

Product Manager: What my colleagues think I do

Nov 1 2014

A Decade of Progress in Parallel Programming Productivity

Looking at the design and benefits of X10.

John T. Richards, Jonathan Brezin, Calvin B. Swart, and Christine A. Halverson

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

A Decade of Progress in Parallel Programming Productivity, illustration

Nov 1 2014

JavaScript and the Netflix User Interface

Conditional dependency resolution.

Alex Liu

Computing Applications

Oct 1 2014

Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market

Assessing legal and technical solutions to secure HTTPS.

Axel Arnbak, Hadi Asghari, Michel Van Eeten, and Nico Van Eijk

Computing Applications

Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market, illustration

Oct 1 2014

Certificate Transparency

Public, verifiable, append-only logs.

Ben Laurie

Architecture and Hardware

Oct 1 2014

Why Is It Taking So Long to Secure Internet Routing?

Routing security incidents can still slip past deployed security defenses.

Sharon Goldberg

Architecture and Hardware

Why Is It Taking So Long to Secure Internet Routing?, illustration

Sep 1 2014

Securing the Tangled Web

Preventing script injection vulnerabilities through software design.

Christoph Kern

Architecture and Hardware

Sep 1 2014

The Network Is Reliable

An informal survey of real-world communications failures.

Peter Bailis and Kyle Kingsbury

Architecture and Hardware

Sep 1 2014

Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences

Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust.

Computing Applications

Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences, illustration

Aug 1 2014

Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data

Many disparate use cases can be satisfied with a single storage system.

Mark Cavage and David Pacheco

Architecture and Hardware

Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data, illustration

Aug 1 2014

Quality Software Costs Money – Heartbleed Was Free

How to generate funding for free and open source software.

Poul-Henning Kamp

Computing Applications

Quality Software Costs Money, illustration

Aug 1 2014

Undergraduate Software Engineering

Addressing the needs of professional software development.

Michael J. Lutz, J. Fernando Naveda, and James R. Vallino

Architecture and Hardware

Undergraduate Software Engineering, illustrative photo

Jul 1 2014

Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts

A discussion with Michael Donat, Jafar Husain, and Terry Coatta

Computing Applications

Jul 1 2014

Who Must You Trust?

You must have some trust if you want to get anything done.

Thomas Wadlow

Computing Applications

Jul 1 2014

Finding More Than One Worm in the Apple

If you see something, say something.

Mike Bland

Computing Applications

Finding More Than One Worm in the Apple, illustrative photo

Jun 1 2014

The Curse of the Excluded Middle

"Mostly functional" programming does not work.

Erik Meijer

Computing Applications

The Curse of the Excluded Middle, illustration

Jun 1 2014

Domain-Specific Languages and Code Synthesis Using Haskell

Looking at embedded DSLs.

Andy Gill

Computing Applications

Domain-Specific Languages and Code Synthesis Using Haskell, illustration

Jun 1 2014

Design Exploration Through Code-Generating DSLs

High-level DSLs for low-level programming.

Bo Joel Svensson, Mary Sheeran, and Ryan R. Newton

Computing Applications

Design Exploration through Code-Generating DSLs, illustration

May 1 2014

The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye

How good security at the NSA could have stopped him.

Bob Toxen

Computing Applications

May 1 2014

A Primer on Provenance

Better understanding data requires tracking its history and context.

Computing Applications

May 1 2014

Don’t Settle For Eventual Consistency

Stronger properties for low-latency geo-replicated storage.

Wyatt Lloyd, Michael J. Freedman, Michael Kaminsky, and David G. Andersen

Architecture and Hardware

Apr 1 2014

Multipath TCP

Decoupled from IP, TCP is at last able to support multihomed hosts.

Christoph Paasch and Olivier Bonaventure

Architecture and Hardware

Apr 1 2014

Rate-Limiting State

The edge of the Internet is an unruly place.

Paul Vixie

Architecture and Hardware

Apr 1 2014

Major-League SEMAT: Why Should an Executive Care?

Becoming better, faster, cheaper, and happier.

Ivar Jacobson, Pan-Wei Ng, Ian Spence, and Paul E. McMahon

Computing Applications

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