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In 2014, when Michael Stonebraker received the ACM Turing Award — computing’s highest honor — the citation praised him for “fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying…

In 1994, a 31-year-old cryptographer published a book that did something the United States government had spent decades trying to prevent: it put the tools of military-grade encryption…

On December 10, 1993, a file appeared on an FTP server at the University of Wisconsin. It was 2.39 megabytes. Within hours, so many people tried to download…

Few individuals in the history of open-source software have left a footprint as broad and deep as TJ Holowaychuk. Between roughly 2009 and 2014, this self-taught Canadian developer…

In 2011, Judea Pearl stood before an audience at the Association for Computing Machinery’s annual awards banquet to accept the A.M. Turing Award — the highest honor in…

In the mid-1980s, while most database engineers were still grappling with pessimistic locking schemes that forced transactions to wait in line like customers at a single checkout counter,…

In 2014, a relatively unknown researcher from a small town in Armenia submitted a paper to the International Conference on Learning Representations that would fundamentally alter the trajectory…

In the world of artificial intelligence, there is a persistent gap between what algorithms can learn in simulation and what robots can actually do in the physical world.…