This paper  from Sigmod 2021 presents FoundationDB, a transactional key-value store that supports multi-key strictly serializable transacti...

These posters were published in the Soviet anti-religious magazine, Bezbozhnik (“The Godless”) from 1922 to 1941.

From Mazes and Monsters to Dark Dungeons, D&D was a lot scarier in the 1980s.

Recently my PhD student gave a rehearsal of their 20 minute oral presentation. It was ok. Average. In other words, (seemingly) long, and boring. Like so many people’s technical talks. What ca…

This video describes a volumetric display I designed and built that uses a phased arrray of ultrasonic transducers to levitate a 1mm foam ball and move it at speeds greater than 1m/s. The POV effect makes it seem as if you're drawing in mid-air!

This was…

Hello all, The HLSL compiler community is interested in contributing HLSL, DirectX and Vulkan graphics support to Clang and LLVM. Why do we want to do this? The existing HLSL compiler, the DirectX Shader Compiler (DXC), is a fork of LLVM/Clang 3.7 and…

As the west focuses on oligarchs, a far smaller group has its grip on true power in Moscow. Who are the siloviki — and what motivates them?

A deep dive into the UX of current single sign-on and an overview of possible solutions.

Incident Report: Spotify Outage on March 8, 2022 - Spotify Engineering

Physicists in the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) have developed a new approach to control the outcome of chemical reactions. This is traditionally done using temperature and chemical catalysts, ...

For the past few months, we've been working hard to improve the Pull Request experience. One of the features we're most excited about: Pull Request File Tree. The new tree: Jump bet...

The next step could be a pig translation app for farmers.

Talk about zero to 60 in... never.