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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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Keeping Bits Safe: How Hard Can It Be?
As storage systems grow larger and larger, protecting their data for long-term storage is becoming ever more challenging.
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The Case Against Data Lock-In
Want to keep your users? Just make it easy for them to leave.
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Tackling Architectural Complexity with Modeling
Component models can help diagnose architectural problems in both new and existing systems.
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Thinking Clearly About Performance, Part 2
More important principles to keep in mind when designing high-performance software.
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Photoshop Scalability: Keeping It Simple
Clem Cole and Russell Williams discuss Photoshop's long history with parallelism, and what is now seen as the chief challenge.
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Thinking Clearly About Performance, Part 1
Improving the performance of complex software is difficult, but understanding some fundamental principles can make it easier.
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Injecting Errors For Fun and Profit
Error-detection and correction features are only as good as our ability to test them.
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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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Seven Principles For Selecting Software Packages
Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask about the decision-making process.
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Moving to the Edge: A CTO Roundtable on Network Virtualization
Leading experts debate how virtualization and clouds impact network service architectures.
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Software Development with Code Maps
Could ubiquitous hand-drawn code map diagrams become a thing of the past?
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You're Doing It Wrong
Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again.
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Visualizing System Latency
Heat maps are a unique and powerful way to visualize latency data. Explaining the results, however, is an ongoing challenge.
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The Ideal HPC Programming Language
Maybe it's Fortran. Or maybe it just doesn't matter.
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A Tour Through the Visualization Zoo
A survey of powerful visualization techniques, from the obvious to the obscure.
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Simplicity Betrayed
Emulating a video system shows how even a simple interface can be more complex—and capable—than it appears.
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Securing Elasticity in the Cloud
Elastic computing has great potential, but many security challenges remain.
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Why Cloud Computing Will Never Be Free
The competition among cloud providers may drive prices downward, but at what cost?
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