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DevEX: What Actually Drives Productivity?
The developer-centric approach to measuring and improving productivity.
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Beyond the Repository
Best practices for open source ecosystems researchers.
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Research for Practice: OS Scheduling
Better scheduling policies for modern computing systems.
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Opportunity Cost and Missed Chances in Optimizing Cybersecurity
The loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen.
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To PiM or Not to PiM
The case for in-memory inferencing of quantized CNNs at the edge.
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Taking Flight with Copilot
Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools.
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Reinventing Backend Subsetting at Google
Designing an algorithm with reduced connection churn that could replace deterministic subsetting.
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Research for Practice: The Fun in Fuzzing
The debugging technique comes into its own.
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OCCAM-v2: Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis for Effective and Efficient Whole-Program Specialization
Leveraging scalable pointer analysis, value analysis, and dynamic analysis.
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Research for Practice: Crash Consistency
Keeping data safe in the presence of crashes is a fundamental problem.
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CSRB's Opus One
Comments on the Cyber Safety Review Board Log4j Event Report.
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Research for Practice: Convergence
The return of a popular feature that shares the joy and utility of reading CS research between academics and their counterparts in industry.
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The Software Industry Is Still the Problem
The time is (also) way overdue for IT professional liability.
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Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception
Software engineering teams can exploit attackers' human nature by building deception environments.
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It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge
A discussion with Reynold Xin, Wes McKinney, Alan Gates, and Chris McCubbin.
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Meaning and Context in Computer Programs
Sharing domain knowledge among programmers using the source code as the medium.
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