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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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Software Development with Code Maps
Could ubiquitous hand-drawn code map diagrams become a thing of the past?
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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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Other People's Data
Companies have access to more types of external data than ever before. How can they integrate it most effectively?
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Data in Flight
How streaming SQL technology can help solve the Web 2.0 data crunch.
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A Conversation with David E. Shaw
Stanford professor Pat Hanrahan sits down with the noted hedge fund founder, computational biochemist, and (above all) computer scientist.
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Unifying Biological Image Formats with HDF5
The biosciences need an image format capable of high performance and long-term maintenance. Is HDF5 the answer?
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Probing Biomolecular Machines with Graphics Processors
GPU acceleration and other computer performance increases will offer critical benefits to biomedical science.
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Monitoring and Control of Large Systems With MonALISA
MonALISA developers describe how it works, the key design principles behind it, and the biggest technical challenges in building it.
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Reveling in Constraints
The Google Web Toolkit is an end-run around Web development obstacles.
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The Pathologies of Big Data
Scale up your datasets enough and your apps come undone. What are the typical problems and where do the bottlenecks surface?
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Browser Security: Lessons from Google Chrome
To shield the browser from attacks, Google Chrome developers eyed three key problems.
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The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later
Revisiting Gray and Putzolu's famous rule in the age of Flash.
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Hard-Disk Drives: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
New drive technologies and increased capacities create new categories of failure modes that will influence system designs.
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Debugging AJAX in Production
Lacking proper browser support, what steps can we take to debug production AJAX code?
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Security in the Browser
Users with no security training download Web browsers from the Internet without precaution, and demand that they be fast and easy to use. What can be done to make ...
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ORM in Dynamic Languages
Dynamic languages offer a taste of object-relational mapping that eases application code.
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Erlang For Concurrent Programming
Designed for concurrency from the ground up, the Erlang language can be a valuable tool to help solve concurrent problems.
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