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Photoshop Scalability: Keeping It Simple
Clem Cole and Russell Williams discuss Photoshop's long history with parallelism, and what is now seen as the chief challenge.
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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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Seven Principles For Selecting Software Packages
Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask about the decision-making process.
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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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Visualizing System Latency
Heat maps are a unique and powerful way to visualize latency data. Explaining the results, however, is an ongoing challenge.
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The Ideal HPC Programming Language
Maybe it's Fortran. Or maybe it just doesn't matter.
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A Tour Through the Visualization Zoo
A survey of powerful visualization techniques, from the obvious to the obscure.
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Simplicity Betrayed
Emulating a video system shows how even a simple interface can be more complex—and capable—than it appears.
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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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Enhanced Debugging With Traces
An essential technique used in emulator development is a useful addition to any programmer's toolbox.
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Cooling the Data Center
What can be done to make cooling systems in data centers more energy efficient?
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Global IT Management: Structuring For Scale, Responsiveness, and Innovation
To succeed on a global scale, businesses should focus on a trio of key elements.
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Software Model Checking Takes Off
A translator framework enables the use of model checking in complex avionics systems and other industrial settings.
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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 Threat Analysis of RFID Passports
An RFID-passport attack is more plausible than skimming RFID information. Do RFID passports make us vulnerable to identity theft?
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You Don't Know Jack About Software Maintenance
Long considered an afterthought, software maintenance is easiest and most effective when built into a system from the ground up.
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Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk
As the sophistication of wiretapping technology grows, so too do the risks it poses to our privacy and security.
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