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A Guided Tour of Data-Center Networking
A good user experience depends on predictable performance within the data-center network.
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Modeling People and Places with Internet Photo Collections
Understanding the world from the sea of online photos.
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Your Mouse Is a Database
Web and mobile applications are increasingly composed of asynchronous and real-time streaming services and push notifications.
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Interactive Dynamics For Visual Analysis
A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations.
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CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History
With the open CPU DB database, you can mine microprocessor trends over the past 40 years.
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SAGE: Whitebox Fuzzing For Security Testing
SAGE has had a remarkable impact at Microsoft.
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The Hyperdimensional Tar Pit
Make a guess, double the number, and then move to the next larger unit of time.
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You Don't Know Jack About Shared Variables or Memory Models
Data races are evil.
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Advances and Challenges in Log Analysis
Logs contain a wealth of information to help manage systems.
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How Will Astronomy Archives Survive the Data Tsunami?
Astronomers are collecting more data than ever. What practices can keep them ahead of the flood?
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Abstraction in Hardware System Design
Applying lessons from software languages to hardware languages using Bluespec SystemVerilog.
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ACM CTO Roundtable on Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
Finding solutions as growth and fragmentation complicate mobile device support.
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The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake
Did Ken, Dennis, and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminated text strings?
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Arrogance in Business Planning
Technology business plans that assume no competition — ever.
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The Robustness Principle Reconsidered
In 1981, Jon Postel formulated the Robustness Principle. Although described for implementations of TCP, it was quickly accepted as a...
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Computing Without Processors
Heterogeneous systems allow us to target our programming to the appropriate environment.
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If You Have Too Much Data, Then 'Good Enough' Is Good Enough
In today's humongous database systems, clarity may be relaxed, but business needs can still be met.
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Scalable SQL
How do large-scale sites and applications remain SQL-based?
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