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Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
The concept of cryptocurrencies is built from forgotten ideas in research literature.
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XML and JSON Are Like Cardboard
Cardboard surrounds and protects stuff as it crosses boundaries.
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Hootsuite: In Pursuit of Reactive Systems
A discussion with Edward Steel, Yanik Berube, Jonas Bonér, Ken Britton, and Terry Coatta
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Is There a Single Method For the Internet of Things?
Essence can keep software development for the IoT from becoming unwieldy.
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Metaphors We Compute By
Code is a story that explains how to solve a particular problem.
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The Calculus of Service Availability
You're only as available as the sum of your dependencies.
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Data Sketching
The approximate approach is often faster and more efficient.
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Now That We Can Write Simultaneously, How Do We Use That to Our Advantage?
Word processors now make it possible for many authors to work on the same document concurrently. But what can they actually do?
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Research For Practice: Tracing and Debugging Distributed Systems; Programming By Examples
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Side Effects, Front and Center
One system's side effect is another's meat and potatoes.
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The Debugging Mind-Set
Understanding the psychology of learning strategies leads to effective problem-solving skills.
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Making Money Using Math
Modern applications are increasingly using probabilistic machine-learned models.
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MongoDB's Javascript Fuzzer
The fuzzer is for those edge cases that your testing did not catch.
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Research For Practice: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Smart Contracts; Hardware For Deep Learning
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Pervasive, Dynamic Authentication of Physical Items
The use of silicon PUF circuits.
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Time, but Faster
A computing adventure about time through the looking glass.
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Heterogeneous Computing: Here to Stay
Hardware and software perspectives.
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