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Walk a Mile in Their Shoes
The COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of four tech workers.
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FPGAs in Client Compute Hardware
Despite certain challenges, FPGAs provide security and performance benefits over ASICs.
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Interpretable Machine Learning: Moving from Mythos to Diagnostics
A path forward for the ML community to address a stark disconnect.
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The Keys to the Kingdom
A deleted private key, a looming deadline, and a last chance to patch a new static root of trust into the bootloader.
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Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter
Stopping Big Brother would require an expensive overhaul of the entire system.
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The Software Industry Is Still the Problem
The time is (also) way overdue for IT professional liability.
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Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception
Software engineering teams can exploit attackers' human nature by building deception environments.
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It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge
A discussion with Reynold Xin, Wes McKinney, Alan Gates, and Chris McCubbin.
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Meaning and Context in Computer Programs
Sharing domain knowledge among programmers using the source code as the medium.
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Federated Learning and Privacy
Building privacy-preserving systems for machine learning and data science on decentralized data.
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Human-Centered Approach to Static-Analysis-Driven Developer Tools
The future depends on good HCI.
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A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson
The history of Berkeley DB.
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Designing UIs for Static-Analysis Tools
Evaluating tool design guidelines with SWAN.
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Declarative Machine Learning Systems
The future of machine learning will depend on it being in the hands of the rest of us.
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Static Analysis
The fundamental challenge of software engineering is one of complexity.
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