Critical but oft-neglected service metrics that every SRE and product owner should care about.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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An Agile Approach to Learning Programming
The Super Simple Programming Book is one example to teach programming in an Agile way. In general, Agile concepts can lead to highly effective learning.
Using Independent Technical Reviews to Ensure Project Success
By using independent technical reviews, management can have a third party audit software and ensure the dev team stays on track.
Why is privacy so hard? Why is it, after so much negative press about it, are we still being constantly tracked on the web and on our smartphones? Why is it, after so many years of bad incidents and high profile data breaches, has the problem of privacy not yet been solved? I sketch out 11 reasons why we are failing at privacy.
Human Resources departments are taking advantage of the workforce management capabilities provided by artificial intelligence.
Technical Perspective: Borrowing Big Code to Automate Programming Activities
"Predicting Program Properties from 'Big Code'" presents new techniques for leveraging big code to automate two programming activities: selecting understandable names for JavaScript identifiers and generating type annotations for JavaScript variables.
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blockchain Universe
Blockchain remains a mystery, despite its growing acceptance.
Blogging Birds: Telling Informative Stories About the Lives of Birds from Telemetric Data
The system transforms raw telemetric data into engaging and informative blog texts readily understood by all.
The Seven Tools of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning
The kind of causal inference seen in natural human thought can be "algorithmitized" to help produce human-level machine intelligence.
Metamorphic Testing of Driverless Cars
Metamorphic testing can test untestable software, detecting fatal errors in autonomous vehicles' onboard computer systems.
Predicting Program Properties from ‘Big Code’
We present a new approach for predicting program properties from large codebases (aka "Big Code").
Software-Defined Power Cuts Costs
Hyper-scale datacenters need more efficient control of their electrical use.
Seeking Digital Humanities, IT Tech Support
Herbert Bruderer explains why the opposite of digital is not analog; Robin K. Hill describes how the challenges of user support are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
Libraries Considered Hazardous
Libraries of the future cannot merely be catalogs of digital content. The objects in the digital library will need to interact in some fashion so that truth value of their contents can be adjusted as new knowledge becomes available.
Technical Perspective: To Do or Not To Do: Extending SQL with Integer Linear Programming?
"Scalable Computation of High-Order Optimization Queries," by Brucato et al., makes a case for marrying the well-established paradigms of constrained optimization (specifically ILP) and traditional SQL querying.
Seeking to promote regulations for reliable software for the long-term prosperity of the software industry.
CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft
A discussion with Jacek Czerwonka, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird, Lucas Panjer, and Terry Coatta
A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture
Innovations like domain-specific hardware, enhanced security, open instruction sets, and agile chip development will lead the way.
SONYC: A System for Monitoring, Analyzing, and Mitigating Urban Noise Pollution
SONYC integrates sensors, machine listening, data analytics, and citizen science to address noise pollution in New York City.
Blockchains From a Distributed Computing Perspective
The roots of blockchain technologies are deeply interwoven in distributed computing.
Separation logic is a key development in formal reasoning about programs, opening up new lines of attack on longstanding problems.
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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