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Digging into Big Provenance (with SPADE)
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Digging into Big Provenance (with SPADE)

A user interface for querying provenance.

A New Era for Mechanical CAD
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A New Era for Mechanical CAD

Time to move forward from decades-old design.

WebRTC
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WebRTC: Real-Time Communication for the Open Web Platform

What was once a way to bring audio and video to the Web has expanded into more use cases than we could ever imagine.

Always-on Time-Series Database
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Always-on Time-Series Database: Keeping Up Where There's No Way to Catch Up

A discussion with Theo Schlossnagle, Justin Sheehy, and Chris McCubbin.

The SPACE of Developer Productivity
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The SPACE of Developer Productivity

There's more to it than you think.

Battery Day
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Battery Day

A closer look at the technology that makes portable electronics possible.

Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing
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Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing

From thingamabobs to rockets, 3D printing takes many forms.

The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs
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The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs

Why DevOps encourages us to celebrate outages.

The Die is Cast
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The Die is Cast

Hardware security is not assured.

The Life of a Data Byte
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The Life of a Data Byte

Be kind and rewind.

The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
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The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs

Hitting a nerve with field-programmable gate arrays.

Dark Patterns
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Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future

The evolution of tricky user interfaces.

Is Persistent Memory Persistent?
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Is Persistent Memory Persistent?

A simple and inexpensive test of failure-atomic update mechanisms.

Power to the People
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Power to the People

Reducing datacenter carbon footprints.

Demystifying Stablecoins
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Demystifying Stablecoins

Cryptography meets monetary policy.

Commit to Memory
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Commit to Memory

Chipping away at Moore's Law.

Managing the Hidden Costs of Coordination
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Managing the Hidden Costs of Coordination

Controlling coordination costs when multiple, distributed perspectives are essential.

Cognitive Work of Hypothesis Exploration During Anomaly Response
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Cognitive Work of Hypothesis Exploration During Anomaly Response

A look at how we respond to the unexpected.

Securing the Boot Process
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Securing the Boot Process

The hardware root of trust.

Opening Up the Baseboard Management Controller
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Opening Up the Baseboard Management Controller

If the CPU is the brain of the board, the BMC is the brain stem.
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