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2012
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Writing secure programs: an interview with Steve Lipner
by Peter J. Denning
May 2012Protecting computing systems and networks from attackers and data theft is an enormously complicated problem. The individual operating systems are complex (typically more than 40 million lines of code), they are connected to an enormous Internet (on order of 1 billion hosts), and the whole network is heavily populated (more than 2.3 billion users). Hunting down and patching vulnerabilities is a losing game.
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Bringing architecture back to computing: an interview with Daniel A. Menascé
by Peter J. Denning
April 2012Over the past 10 or 20 years, the subject of machine organization and system architecture has been deemphasized in favor of the powerful abstractions that support computational thinking. ...
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Dark innovation: An interview with Jerry Michalski
by Peter J. Denning
March 2012As computing technologists, we tend to think of innovations in terms of new products or services supported by, or made of, computing technologies. But there are other types of innovation ...
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The Law, the Computer, and the Mind: An interview with Roy Freed
by Gil Press
January 20122011 marked the 50th anniversary of the first educational program on computer law, sponsored by the Joint Committee on Continuing Professional Education of the American Law Institute and the American ...
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A 10 Point Checklist for Getting it Off the Shelf: An interview with Dick Urban
by Peter J. Denning
January 2012Far too many R&D; programs in industry as well as government result in reports or prototypes that represent fundamentally good ideas but end up gathering dust on a shelf. ...