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Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust.
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The Network Is Reliable
An informal survey of real-world communications failures.
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Securing the Tangled Web
Preventing script injection vulnerabilities through software design.
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Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data
Many disparate use cases can be satisfied with a single storage system.
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Undergraduate Software Engineering
Addressing the needs of professional software development.
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Who Must You Trust?
You must have some trust if you want to get anything done.
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Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts
A discussion with Michael Donat, Jafar Husain, and Terry Coatta
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The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye
How good security at the NSA could have stopped him.
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A Primer on Provenance
Better understanding data requires tracking its history and context.
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Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency
Stronger properties for low-latency geo-replicated storage.
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Multipath TCP
Decoupled from IP, TCP is at last able to support multihomed hosts.
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Scaling Existing Lock-Based Applications with Lock Elision
Enabling existing lock-based programs to achieve performance benefits of nonblocking synchronization.
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The API Performance Contract
How can the expected interactions between caller and implementation be guaranteed?
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Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?
Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.
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Center Wheel For Success
"Not invented here" syndrome is not unique to the IT world.
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Provenance in Sensor Data Management
A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.
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Toward Software-Defined SLAs
Enterprise computing in the public cloud.
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