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Software Model Checking Takes Off
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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.

Managing Contention For Shared Resources on Multicore Processors
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Managing Contention For Shared Resources on Multicore Processors

Contention for caches, memory controllers, and interconnects can be eased by contention-aware scheduling algorithms.

Power-Efficient Software
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Power-Efficient Software

Power-manageable hardware can help save energy, but what can software developers do to address the problem?

Triple-Parity RAID and Beyond
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Triple-Parity RAID and Beyond

As hard-drive capacities continue to outpace their throughput, the time has come for a new level of RAID.

Other People's Data
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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?

Data in Flight
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Data in Flight

How streaming SQL technology can help solve the Web 2.0 data crunch.

Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems
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Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems

How do we develop software to make the most of the promise that asymmetric multicore systems use a lot less energy?

What DNS Is Not
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What DNS Is Not

DNS is many things to many people — perhaps too many things to too many people.

A Threat Analysis of RFID Passports
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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?

You Don't Know Jack About Software Maintenance
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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.

Four Billion Little Brothers?
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Four Billion Little Brothers?: Privacy, Mobile Phones, and Ubiquitous Data Collection

Participatory sensing technologies could improve our lives and our communities, but at what cost to our privacy?

Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk
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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.

A Conversation with David E. Shaw
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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.

Unifying Biological Image Formats with HDF5
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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?

Probing Biomolecular Machines with Graphics Processors
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Probing Biomolecular Machines with Graphics Processors

GPU acceleration and other computer performance increases will offer critical benefits to biomedical science.

Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems
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Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems

All revision-control systems come with complicated sets of trade-offs. How do you find the best match between tool and team?

Monitoring and Control of Large Systems With MonALISA
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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.

Reveling in Constraints
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Reveling in Constraints

The Google Web Toolkit is an end-run around Web development obstacles.

CTO Roundtable
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CTO Roundtable: Cloud Computing

The age of cloud computing has begun. How can companies take advantage of the new opportunities it provides?

The Pathologies of Big Data
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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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