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acmqueue provides a critical perspective on current and emerging technologies. Its distinguished Editorial Board makes sure that acmqueue's high-quality content dives deep into the technical challenges and critical questions software engineers should be thinking about.
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Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems
Asymmetric multicore systems promise to use a lot less energy than conventional symmetric processors. How can we develop software that makes the most out of this potential?
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Other People's DataCompanies have access to more types of external data than ever before. How can they integrate it most effectively?
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What DNS Is NotDNS is many things to many people—perhaps too many things to too many people.
Columns: Kode Vicious
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Merge Early, Merge Often
Integrating changes in branched development
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You Don't Know Jack About Software Maintenance
Long considered an afterthought, software maintenance is easiest and most effective when built into a system from the ground up.
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A Conversation with David Shaw
In a rare interview, David Shaw discusses how he's using computer science to unravel the mysteries of biochemistry.
Bonus: Listen to an audio clip of material not found in the text version.
Case Study: File Systems and Storage
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GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward
A discussion between Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan about the origin and evolution of the Google File System
Columns: Curmudgeon
- Words Fail Them
Dedesignating and other linguistic hazards
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Cloud Computing: An Overview
A summary of important cloud-computing issues distilled from ACM CTO Roundtables -
CTO Roundtable: Cloud Computing
Our panel of experts discuss cloud computing and how companies can make the best use of it.
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Why we're able to Google
Computing Research that Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives
Planet Queue
An aggregation of blog postings by acmqueue authors on ACM Digital Library articles. acmqueue authors “unlock” these articles making them freely available to the general readership.
Latest Postings on articles from the ACM Digital Library :
- Queue, CACM, and the rebirth of the ACM
- "Where do you come from? and where are you going?"
- A Conversation with Alan Kay
- A Conversation with Jarod Jenson
- A High-Performance Team
- Anton, a special-purpose machine for molecular dynamics simulation
- Flash storage memory
- Hidden in Plain Sight
- Self-Healing in Modern Operating Systems
- Electronic Junk revisited
- ACM Forum
- ACM president's letter: electronic junk
- Eulogy for a benchmark
- Not just correct, but correct and fast: a look at one of Jim Gray's contributions to database system performance
- Performance Anti-Patterns
