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Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing
From thingamabobs to rockets, 3D printing takes many forms.
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The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs
Why DevOps encourages us to celebrate outages.
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The Identity in Everyone's Pocket
Keeping users secure through their smartphones.
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Security Analysis of SMS as a Second Factor of Authentication
The challenges of multifactor authentication based on SMS, including cellular security deficiencies, SS7 exploits, and SIM swapping.
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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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Managing the Hidden Costs of Coordination
Controlling coordination costs when multiple, distributed perspectives are essential.
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Cognitive Work of Hypothesis Exploration During Anomaly Response
A look at how we respond to the unexpected.
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The Reliability of Enterprise Applications
Understanding enterprise reliability.
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Space Time Discontinuum
Combining data from many sources may cause painful delays.
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Write Amplification vs. Read Perspiration
The trade-offs between write and read.
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The Effects of Mixing Machine Learning and Human Judgment
Collaboration between humans and machines does not necessarily lead to better outcomes.
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Extract, Shoehorn, and Load
Data doesn't always fit nicely into a new home.
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Access Controls and Healthcare Records: Who Owns the Data?
A discussion with David Evans, Richard McDonald, and Terry Coatta.
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Achieving Digital Permanence
The many challenges to maintaining stored information and ways to overcome them.
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Online Event Processing
Achieving consistency where distributed transactions have failed.
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