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Driving the Cloud to True Zero Carbon
Climate change has come to the fore as a business concern, and this compels the business leaders of computing technology companies to be on the side of progress toward true zero carbon.
Half-Baked High-Resolution Referencing
I wonder whether time resolution, in addition to space resolution, might be a functionality to instantiate. Assuming that this would be an interesting capability, it remains to figure out how to implement it.
Technical Perspective: Programming Microfluidics to Execute Biological Protocols
The approach taken in "BioScript," by Jason Ott, et al., is an example of how programming languages can help develop executable protocols that are conforming, understandable, safe, and retargetable.
The State of Virtual Reality Hardware
Advances in VR hardware could finally take the technology mainstream.
Technological Responses to COVID-19
Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.
When Permissioned Blockchains Deliver More Decentralization Than Permissionless
Considerations for the governance of distributed systems.
Cybersecurity: Is It Worse than We Think?
Evaluating actual implementations and practices versus stated goals.
Polanyi’s Revenge and AI’s New Romance with Tacit Knowledge
Artificial intelligence systems need the wisdom to know when to take advice from us and when to learn from data.
Let’s Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science
Donald Knuth on the best way to recognize the history of computer science.
Differential Privacy: The Pursuit of Protections by Default
A discussion with Miguel Guevara, Damien Desfontaines, Jim Waldo, and Terry Coatta
How design and operation of modern cloud-scale systems conflict with GDPR.
AZERTY amélioré: Computational Design on a National Scale
A new French keyboard standard is the first designed with the help of computational methods.
Keeping Science on Keel When Software Moves
An approach to reproducibility problems related to porting software across machines and compilers.
DP-Cryptography: Marrying Differential Privacy and Cryptography in Emerging Applications
Synthesizing the emerging directions of research at the intersection of differential privacy and cryptography.
A Review of the Semantic Web Field
Tracing the triumphs and challenges of two decades of Semantic Web research and applications.
BioScript: Programming Safe Chemistry on Laboratories-on-a-Chip
This paper introduces BioScript, a domain-specific language for programmable biochemistry that executes on emerging microfluidic platforms.
Bringing Stability to Wireless Connections
2020 Marconi Prize recipient Andrea Goldsmith on MIMO technologies, millimeter-wave communications, and her goals as the new dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
What exactly is NoSQL, and why should it matter in today's hyper-connected society?
Finally, Apps to Sink Your Teeth Into
Developers are beginning to incorporate teeth into new technologies.
Autonomous Shipping Charts Its Course
The maritime industry wades into digitalization; will it float?
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