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February 2025 – Communications of the ACM
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It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety
Memory-safety standardization is an essential step to promoting universal strong memory safety in government and industry, and to ensure access to more secure software for all.
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Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
A concise, high-level overview of Meta’s hyperscale infrastructure, with key insights from its development.
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Investigating Research Software Engineering: Toward RSE Research
It is necessary to build better domain-specific tooling to address the domain-specific challenges of research software and to establish RSE Research as a research field over RSE.
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Fit for People, Fit for Purpose: Designing Tech that Matters
My computing degree enabled me to create better-fitting technologies for people and what is important to them.
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Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot’s Code Contributions
Our work attempts to characterize the tendency of Copilot to produce insecure code.