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A New Software Engineering
What happened to the promise of rigorous, disciplined, professional practices for software development?
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Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market
Assessing legal and technical solutions to secure HTTPS.
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Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust.
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Securing the Tangled Web
Preventing script injection vulnerabilities through software design.
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Undergraduate Software Engineering
Addressing the needs of professional software development.
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Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts
A discussion with Michael Donat, Jafar Husain, and Terry Coatta
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The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye
How good security at the NSA could have stopped him.
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Center Wheel For Success
"Not invented here" syndrome is not unique to the IT world.
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Adopting Devops Practices in Quality Assurance
Merging the art and science of software development.
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Barbarians at the Gateways
A special section on high-frequency trading and exchange technology.
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Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading
The challenges faced by competing HFT algorithms.
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Passively Measuring TCP Round-Trip Times
A close look at round-trip time measurements with the Transmission Control Protocol.
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The Antifragile Organization
Embracing failure to improve resilience and maximize availability.
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Structured Deferral: Synchronization via Procrastination
We simply do not have a synchronization mechanism that can enforce mutual exclusion.
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Real-Time GPU Audio
Real-time finite difference-based sound synthesis using graphics processors.
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Resolved: The Internet Is No Place For Critical Infrastructure
Risk is a necessary consequence of dependence.
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Rethinking Passwords
Our authentication system is lacking. Is improvement possible?
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Browser Security: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
A discussion with Jeremiah Grossman, Ben Livshits, Rebecca Bace, and George Neville-Neil
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