A Decade of OS Access-Control Extensibility
Open source security foundations for mobile and embedded devices.
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Browser Security: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
A discussion with Jeremiah Grossman, Ben Livshits, Rebecca Bace, and George Neville-Neil
The Web Won’t Be Safe or Secure Until We Break It
Unless you have taken very particular precautions, assume every website you visit knows exactly who you are.
Anatomy of a Solid-State Drive
While the ubiquitous SSD shares many features with the hard-disk drive, under the surface they are completely different.
The Essence of Software Engineering: The SEMAT Kernel
A thinking framework in the form of an actionable kernel.
Sender-Side Buffers and the Case For Multimedia Adaptation
A proposal to improve the performance and availability of streaming video and other time-sensitive media.
Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure
A discussion with Jesse Robbins, Kripa Krishnan, John Allspaw, and Tom Limoncelli.
Disks from the Perspective of a File System
Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime.
Failures happen, and resilience drills help organizations prepare for them.
A New Objective-C Runtime: From Research to Production
Backward compatibility always trumps new features.
Software Needs Seatbelts and Airbags
Finding and fixing bugs in deployed software is difficult and time-consuming. Here are some alternatives.
All Your Database Are Belong To Us
In the big open world of the cloud, highly available distributed objects will rule.
Openflow: A Radical New Idea in Networking
An open standard that enables software-defined networking.
Active queue management is just one piece of the solution to persistently full buffers.
My Compiler Does Not Understand Me
Until our programming languages catch up, code will be full of horrors.
There are four common pitfalls to avoid when using software metrics in a project management setting.
Modeling People and Places with Internet Photo Collections
Understanding the world from the sea of online photos.
Real-Time Computer Vision with OpenCV
Mobile computer-vision technology will soon become as ubiquitous as touch interfaces.
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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