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All Your Database Are Belong To Us
In the big open world of the cloud, highly available distributed objects will rule.
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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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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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ACM CTO Roundtable on Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
Finding solutions as growth and fragmentation complicate mobile device support.
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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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Does Deterrence Work in Reducing Information Security Policy Abuse By Employees?
Methods for evaluating and effectively managing the security behavior of employees.
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The One-Second War
Finding a lasting solution to the leap seconds problem has become increasingly urgent.
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A Co-Relational Model of Data For Large Shared Data Banks
Contrary to popular belief, SQL and noSQL are really just two sides of the same coin.
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System Administration Soft Skills
How can system administrators reduce stress and conflict in the workplace?
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A Plea from Sysadmins to Software Vendors: 10 Do's and Don'ts
What can software vendors do to make the lives of system administrators a little easier?
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UX Design and Agile: A Natural Fit?
Talking with Julian Gosper, Jean-Luc Agathos, Richard Rutter, and Terry Coatta.
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