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Security Mismatch
Security must be a business enabler, not a hinderer.
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Knowing What You Need to Know
Personal, team, and organizational effectiveness can be improved with a little preparation.
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Echoes of Intelligence
Textual interpretation and large language models.
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DevEX: What Actually Drives Productivity?
The developer-centric approach to measuring and improving productivity.
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Cargo Cult AI
Is the ability to think scientifically the defining essence of intelligence?
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More Than Just Algorithms
A discussion with Alfred Spector, Peter Norvig, Chris Wiggins, Jeannette Wing, Ben Fried, and Michael Tingley.
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Taking Flight with Copilot
Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools.
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Reinventing Backend Subsetting at Google
Designing an algorithm with reduced connection churn that could replace deterministic subsetting.
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Mapping the Privacy Landscape for Central Bank Digital Currencies
Now is the time to shape what future payment flows will reveal about you.
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Distributed Latency Profiling through Critical Path Tracing
CPT can provide actionable and precise latency analysis.
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FHIR: Reducing Friction in the Exchange of Healthcare Data
A discussion with James Agnew, Pat Helland, and Adam Cole.
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Research for Practice: Convergence
The return of a popular feature that shares the joy and utility of reading CS research between academics and their counterparts in industry.
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Interpretable Machine Learning: Moving from Mythos to Diagnostics
A path forward for the ML community to address a stark disconnect.
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Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter
Stopping Big Brother would require an expensive overhaul of the entire system.
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It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge
A discussion with Reynold Xin, Wes McKinney, Alan Gates, and Chris McCubbin.
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A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson
The history of Berkeley DB.
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