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Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33!
To move forward with programming languages we must first break free from the tyranny of ASCII.
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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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Securing Elasticity in the Cloud
Elastic computing has great potential, but many security challenges remain.
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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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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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Browser Security: Lessons from Google Chrome
To shield the browser from attacks, Google Chrome developers eyed three key problems.
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Hard-Disk Drives: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
New drive technologies and increased capacities create new categories of failure modes that will influence system designs.
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Security in the Browser
Users with no security training download Web browsers from the Internet without precaution, and demand that they be fast and easy to use. What can be done to make ...
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Cybercrime 2.0: When the Cloud Turns Dark
Web-based malware attacks are more insidious than ever. What can be done to stem the tide?
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CTO Virtualization Roundtable: Part II
When it comes to virtualization platforms, experts say focus first on the services to be delivered.
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CTO Roundtable on Virtualization: Part I
Virtualization technology is hot again, but for the right reasons?
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Code Spelunking Redux
Is it getting any easier to understand other people's code?
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Document Design Matters
How do we apply the concept of resource orientation by designing representations to support interactions?
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Software Engineering and Formal Methods
The answer to software reliability concerns may lie in formal methods.
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The Rise and Fall of CORBA
There's a lot we can learn from CORBA's mistakes.
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