The notion of scalable operating systems led Mendel Rosenblum to virtual machines, which have revolutionized datacenters and enabled modern cloud computing.
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How Universities Deploy Student Data
Personalizing efforts to drive greater student retention and success.
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seL4 in Australia: From Research to Real-World Trustworthy Systems
An overview of developments, and of ongoing research, related to the correctness proof of the seL4 microkernel.
The combination of AI and cloud infrastructure is changing the roles of certain engineers and creating a new requirement that demands an entirely new engineering specialty.
Clean Code Isn’t Enough; It Must Be Crystal Clear, Too
Writing clean code is a great start, but for programmers who really want to master their craft, you have to go further. You need to write clear code that other programmers can quickly understand and work with. Here's why.
Translation devices are getting better at making speech and text understandable in different languages.
Above the Line, Below the Line
The resilience of Internet-facing systems relies on what is above the line of representation.
When the value increases engagement, engagement increases the value.
A platform for creating a crowdsourced picture of human opinions on how machines should handle moral dilemmas.
Technical Perspective: A Perspective on Pivot Tracing
Instead of handing trace records off to a collector for long-term storage and future processing, the system described in "Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems," by Jonathan Mace, et al., installs continuous queries, on demand, inside the distributed system itself.
Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems
This paper presents Pivot Tracing, a monitoring framework for distributed systems, which addresses the limitations of today's monitoring and diagnosis tools by combining dynamic instrumentation with a novel relational operator: the happened-before join.
Why it is good to have a systematic approach to software verification.
There is More Than One Way to Become a Good Programmer
A recent Communications of the ACM article casts aspersions on the innovative concept of code academy, a fast-developing approach to teaching programming. The analysis in this article, based on my own experience developing a code academy in the past three years, shows that there is no justification for such contempt. Code academies are a different approach, complementing the traditional university model; they do not offer everything that universities do (and do not pretend to), but also provide a number of benefits not available from university education. They can also serve to provide university graduates with new expertise. They fill industry's crying need for good software developers. They are a complement to universities (and MOOCs), not a competitor, and have earned their place in the battery of educational models.
Talented Programmers Don’t Tolerate Chaos
Talented programmers will strive to structure chaos and write perfect code.
‘Everything Fails All the Time’
Werner Vogels, an expert on ultra-scalable systems, talks about listening to customers, reconceptualizing the stack, and building a product-centered culture.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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