React: Facebook's Functional Turn on Writing Javascript
A discussion with Pete Hunt, Paul O'Shannessy, Dave Smith, and Terry Coatta
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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Industrial-Scale Agile: From Craft to Engineering
Essence is instrumental in moving software development toward a true engineering discipline.
Is email ever private? It seems clear that we need standards and agreements to protect email while in transit between mail transfer agents and between users and transfer agents.
Making Sense of Exabytes of Data at Sc16
“Think about how you got here,” said Katharine Frase, head of strategy and business development for IBM’s Watson Education unit, at the SC16 conference in Salt Lake City last week.
Paas Enables Greater Customization
Platform-as-a-Service environments foster development of custom cloud applications.
Online consumers use software to block ads; online advertisers can pay to be whitelisted by some ad-blocking software.
Pushing on String: The 'Don't Care' Region of Password Strength
Enterprises that impose stringent password-composition policies appear to suffer the same fate as those that do not.
Apache Spark: A Unified Engine For Big Data Processing
This open source computing framework unifies streaming, batch, and interactive big data workloads to unlock new applications.
Technical Perspective: FPGA Compute Acceleration Is First About Energy Efficiency
"A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services" presents a research deployment of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in a Microsoft Bing datacenter.
A Reconfigurable Fabric For Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
We describe a medium-scale deployment of a composable, reconfigurable hardware fabric on a bed of 1,632 servers, and measure its effectiveness in accelerating the ranking component of the Bing web search engine.
Recommender Systems: Beyond Matrix Completion
The future success of these systems depends on more than a Netflix challenge.
Seeking the programmer vote, an AI delivering a slogan like "Make Coding Great Again" could easily be seen as a threat.
Research For Practice: Distributed Consensus and Implications of NVM on Database Management Systems
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research for practitioners.
Scaling Synchronization in Multicore Programs
Advanced synchronization methods can boost the performance of multicore software.
Will Visual Programming Crack the Code on Learning?
An emerging generation of visual coding platforms is introducing software development to young people and other beginners.
Database Decay and What To Do About It
In our opinion, database decay results from the multi-department organization of large implementations.
Most programmers would agree that some programs are elegant, and that elegant programs are better than others.
Technical Perspective: The Power of Parallelizing Computations
"Efficient Parallelization Using Rank Convergence in Dynamic Programming Algorithms" shows how some instances of dynamic programming can be effectively parallelized by taking advantage of the algebraic properties of the underlying computations.
The Greeks and the Romans carved letters in stone and these are still eminently readable over 2,000 years later. Newer media have not been around as long but I think it is arguable that the more recent media do not have the resilience of stone or baked clay.
It is rare for research studies in computing to be reproduced. This seems odd, since we have an advantage over science done in wet labs. There is no reason for us not to be leaders in practices that enable audit and reuse when technically and legally possible.
Naming the next generation and remembering that the cloud is just other people's computers.
Idle-Time Garbage-Collection Scheduling
Taking advantage of idleness to reduce dropped frames and memory consumption.
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