ACM Queue, Volume 19

Volume 19, Number 1, January-February 2021

Escaping the Singularity

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  Pat Helland:
  Fail-fast Is Failing... Fast!: Changes in compute environments are placing pressure on tried-and-true distributed-systems solutions. 5-15

Kode Vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Aversion to Versions: Resolving code-dependency issues. 16-19

Features

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  Nicole Forsgren, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Chandra Shekhar Maddila, Thomas Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Jenna L. Butler:
  The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There's more to it than you think. 20-48
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  Mark Russinovich, Manuel Costa, Cédric Fournet, David Chisnall, Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Sylvan Clebsch, Kapil Vaswani, Vikas Bhatia:
  Toward Confidential Cloud Computing: Extending hardware-enforced cryptographic protection to data while in use. 49-76
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  Niklas Blum, Serge Lachapelle, Harald Alvestrand:
  WebRTC - Realtime Communication for the Open Web Platform: What was once a way to bring audio and video to the web has expanded into more use cases we could ever imagine. 77-93
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  João Varajão:
  Software Development in Disruptive Times: Creating a software solution with fast decision capability, agile project management, and extreme low-code technology. 94-103

Volume 19, Number 2, March-April 2021

Commit to Memory

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  Jessie Frazelle:
  A New Era for Mechanical CAD: Time to move forward from decades-old design. 5-16

Escaping the Singularity

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  Pat Helland:
  ACID: My Personal: How could I miss such a simple thing? 17-20

Kode Vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  In Praise of the Disassembler: There's much to be learned from the lower-level details of hardware. 21-28

Drill Bits

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  Terence Kelly, Weiwei Gu, Vladimir Maksimovski:
  Schrödinger's Code: Undefined behavior in theory and practice. 28-44

Features

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  Ramya Srinivasan, Ajay Chander:
  Biases in AI Systems: A survey for practitioners. 45-64
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  Atefeh Mashatan, Douglas Heintzman:
  The Complex Path to Quantum Resistance: Is your organization prepared? 65-92

Case Studies

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  Michael Gardiner, Alexander Truskovsky, George V. Neville-Neil, Atefeh Mashatan:
  Quantum-safe Trust for Vehicles: The race is already on. 93-115

Volume 19, Number 3, May-June 2021

Opinion

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  Liu Leqi, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Zachary C. Lipton:
  When Curation Becomes Creation: Algorithms, microcontent, and the vanishing distinction between platforms and creators. 11-15

Escaping the Singularity

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  Pat Helland:
  Don't Get Stuck in the "Con" Game: Consistency, convergence, and confluence are not the same! Eventual consistency and eventual convergence aren't the same as confluence, either. 16-35

Kode Vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Divide and Conquer: The use and limits of bisection. 37-39

The Bikeshed

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  Poul-Henning Kamp:
  What Went Wrong?: Why we need an IT accident investigation board. 40-44

Features

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  Piero Molino, Christopher Ré:
  Declarative Machine Learning Systems: The future of machine learning will depend on it being in the hands of the rest of us. 46-76
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  Ashish Gehani, Raza Ahmad, Hassan Irshad, Jianqiao Zhu, Jignesh M. Patel:
  Digging into Big Provenance (with SPADE): A user interface for querying provenance. 77-106
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  Torsten Ullrich:
  Real-world String Comparison: How to handle Unicode sequences correctly. 107-116

Volume 19, Number 4, 2021

July-August 2021
Drill Bits

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  Terence Kelly:
  Crashproofing the Original NoSQL Key-Value Store: An upgrade for the gdbm database. 5-18

Kode Vicious

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  Patent Absurdity: A case when ignorance is the best policy. 19-22

The Bikeshed

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  Poul-Henning Kamp:
  The Software Industry IS STILL the Problem: The time is (also) way overdue for IT professional liability. 23-28

Features

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  Patrick Thomson:
  Static Analysis: An Introduction: The fundamental challenge of software engineering is one of complexity. 29-41
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  Timothy Clem, Patrick Thomson:
  Static Analysis at GitHub: An experience report. 42-67
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  Ayman Nadeem:
  Human-Centered Approach to Static-Analysis-Driven Developer Tools: The future depends on good HCI. 68-95
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  Daniil Tiganov, Lisa Nguyen Quang Do, Karim Ali:
  Designing UIs for Static Analysis Tools: Evaluating tool design guidelines with SWAN. 97-118

Volume 19, Number 5, 2021

September-October 2021
Commit to Memory

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  Jessie Frazelle:
  Chip Measuring Contest: The benefits of purpose-built chips. 5-21

Kode Vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  I Unplugged What?: The lessons here are broader than just a simple "Don't do that.". 22-25

Features

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  Kelly Shortridge, Ryan Petrich:
  Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception: Software engineering teams can exploit attackers' human nature by building deception environments. 26-59
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  Alvaro Videla:
  Meaning and Context in Computer Programs: Sharing domain knowledge among programmers using the source code as the medium. 60-68

Interview

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  Margo I. Seltzer, Mike Olson, Kirk McCusick:
  A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson: The history of Berkeley DB. 69-86

Features

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  Kallista A. Bonawitz, Peter Kairouz, Brendan McMahan, Daniel Ramage:
  Federated Learning and Privacy: Building privacy-preserving systems for machine learning and data science on decentralized data. 87-114

CASE STUDY: Case Studies

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  Reynold Xin, Wes McKinney, Alan Gates, Chris McCubbin:
  It Takes a Community: The Open-source Challenge. 115-136

Volume 19, Number 6, 2021

November-December 2021
Drill Bits

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  Terence Kelly:
  Steampunk Machine Learning: Victorian contrivances for modern data science. 5-17

Kode Vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Getting Off the Mad Path: Debuggers and assertions. 18-21

The Bikeshed

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  Poul-Henning Kamp:
  Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter: Stopping Big Brother would require an expensive overhaul of the entire system. 22-27

Features

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  Valerie Chen, Jeffrey Li, Joon Sik Kim, Gregory Plumb, Ameet Talwalkar:
  Interpretable Machine Learning: Moving from mythos to diagnostics. 28-56
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  Phil Vachon:
  The Keys to the Kingdom: A deleted private key, a looming deadline, and a last chance to patch a new static root of trust into the bootloader. 57-65
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  Michael Mattioli:
  FPGAs in Client Compute Hardware: Despite certain challenges, FPGAs provide security and performance benefits over ASICs. 66-88