In software companies a natural conflict exists between security teams and product delivery teams—one's nature is to slow down progress, the other wants to speed it up. The secret is to view security as an enabler, not a hindrance.
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Why Bother Localizing Information Technology Products?
Alex Tray offers advice and insight into how and why to localize information technology products.
Creating the First Confidential GPUs
The team at NVIDIA brings confidentiality and integrity to user code and data for accelerated computing.
The Perils of Leveraging Evil Digital Twins as Security-Enhancing Enablers
Seeking more secure and effective digital representations.
Bigger, Not Necessarily Better
The inverse scaling issue means larger LLMs sometimes handle things less well.
2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer recalls the motivations behind the development of the Berkeley DB database software library, and other achievements during her career.
Revamping Python for an AI World
Mojo has the same syntax as Python, but runs up to 35,000 times faster.
Cook-Levin: The Ugly Underbelly is Good for Us
Don't just tell your students that SAT is NP-Complete; show why.
The Perils of ‘Stay In Your Lane’
That phrase translates roughly to "do your job and let others do theirs," but in our division, it was intended to stifle troublesome question-asking.
Lessons from PL/I: A Most Ambitious Programming Language
PL/I stands for Programming Language 1, and its aim was to be the Highlander of programming languages.
DevEX: What Actually Drives Productivity
The developer-centric approach to measuring and improving productivity.
Scrambled Features for Breakfast: Concepts of Agile Language Development
Describing a framework to support simpler development of languages best suited to express the problems and solutions of each particular domain.
Boosting Fuzzer Efficiency: An Information Theoretic Perspective
In this paper, we take the fundamental perspective of fuzzing as a learning process.
Technical Perspective: What’s All the Fuss about Fuzzing?
"Boosting Fuzzer Efficiency: An Information Theoretic Perspective," by Marcel Böhme, Valentin J.M. Manès, and Sang Kil Cha, presents a novel twist to fuzzing that is shown to increase the central metric of the number of bugs found.
Let’s Be Objective about Large Language Models
Credit: Walid S. SabaCreated using Generative AI Tools 1. Large Language Models: The End of History? Since the advent of the transformer and attention mechanisms [1] large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage, not only in the artificial intelligence (AI) community but in all of science and technology and even in business and […]
How to Ace IT Product Localization: The 101 Guide
Unlock global success with IT product localization. Discover how you can expand your reach and boost customer satisfaction through effective localization strategies.
The barriers to information generation and sharing have plummeted; information consumers can choose among billions of potential sources. This is information at scale.
Designing a Framework for Conversational Interfaces
Combining the latest advances in machine learning with earlier approaches.
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