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DevEX: What Actually Drives Productivity?
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DevEX: What Actually Drives Productivity?

The developer-centric approach to measuring and improving productivity.

Beyond the Repository
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Beyond the Repository

Best practices for open source ecosystems researchers.

Cargo Cult AI
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Cargo Cult AI

Is the ability to think scientifically the defining essence of intelligence?

Research for Practice: OS Scheduling
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Research for Practice: OS Scheduling

Better scheduling policies for modern computing systems.

Sharpening Your Tools
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Sharpening Your Tools

Updating bulk_extractor for the 2020s.

More Than Just Algorithms
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More Than Just Algorithms

A discussion with Alfred Spector, Peter Norvig, Chris Wiggins, Jeannette Wing, Ben Fried, and Michael Tingley.

Opportunity Cost and Missed Chances in Optimizing Cybersecurity
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Opportunity Cost and Missed Chances in Optimizing Cybersecurity

The loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen.

To PiM or Not to PiM
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To PiM or Not to PiM

The case for in-memory inferencing of quantized CNNs at the edge.

Taking Flight with Copilot
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Taking Flight with Copilot

Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools.

Reinventing Backend Subsetting at Google
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Reinventing Backend Subsetting at Google

Designing an algorithm with reduced connection churn that could replace deterministic subsetting.

Research for Practice: The Fun in Fuzzing
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Research for Practice: The Fun in Fuzzing

The debugging technique comes into its own.

OCCAM-v2: Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis for Effective and Efficient Whole-Program Specialization
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OCCAM-v2: Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis for Effective and Efficient Whole-Program Specialization

Leveraging scalable pointer analysis, value analysis, and dynamic analysis.

Mapping the Privacy Landscape for Central Bank Digital Currencies
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Mapping the Privacy Landscape for Central Bank Digital Currencies

Now is the time to shape what future payment flows will reveal about you.

Research for Practice: Crash Consistency
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Research for Practice: Crash Consistency

Keeping data safe in the presence of crashes is a fundamental problem.

FHIR
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FHIR: Reducing Friction in the Exchange of Healthcare Data

A discussion with James Agnew, Pat Helland, and Adam Cole.

CSRB's Opus One
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CSRB's Opus One

Comments on the Cyber Safety Review Board Log4j Event Report.

Research for Practice: Convergence
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Research for Practice: Convergence

The return of a popular feature that shares the joy and utility of reading CS research between academics and their counterparts in industry.

Linear Address Spaces
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Linear Address Spaces

Unsafe at any speed.

Middleware 101
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Middleware 101

What to know now and for the future.

Persistence Programming
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Persistence Programming

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