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Kode ViciousArticles on code and coding, written by George V. Neville-Neil. George V. Neville-Neil is the proprietor of Neville-Neil Consulting and co-chair of the ACM Queue editorial board. He works on networking and operating systems code for fun and profit, teaches courses on various programming-related subjects, and encourages your comments, quips, and code snips pertaining to his Communications column. |
The Soft Side of SoftwareArticles from the ACM Queue column "the soft side of software", written by Kate Matsudaira. |
Everything SysadminArticles from the ACM Queue column "Everything Sysadmin", written by Thomas A. Limoncelli. is the SRE manager at Stack Overflow Inc. in New York City. His books include The Practice of System and Network Administration (http://the-sysadmin-book.com), The Practice of Cloud System Administration (http://the-cloud-book.com), and Time Management for System Administrators (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007836.do). He blogs at EverythingSysadmin.com and tweets at @YesThatTom. He holds a B.A. in computer science from Drew University. |
The BikeshedArticles from the ACM Queue column "The Bikeshed", written by Poul-Henning Kamp. Poul-Henning Kamp is one of the primary developers of the FreeBSD operating system, which he has worked on from the very beginning. He is widely unknown for his MD5-based password scrambler, which protects the passwords on Cisco routers, Juniper routers, and Linux and BSD systems. Some people have noticed that he wrote a memory allocator, a device file system, and a disk-encryption method that is actually usable. Kamp lives in Denmark with his wife, son, daughter, about a dozen FreeBSD computers, and one of the world's most precise NTP (Network Time Protocol) clocks. He makes a living as an independent contractor doing all sorts of stuff with computers and networks. |
CurmudgeonArticles from the ACM Queue column "Curmudgeon", written by Stan Kelly-Bootle. Stan Kelly-Bootle born in Liverpool, England, read pure mathematics at Cambridge in the 1950s before tackling the impurities of computer science on the pioneering EDSAC I. His many books include The Devil's DP Dictionary (McGraw-Hill, 1981), Understanding Unix (Sybex, 1994), and the recent e-book Computer Language—The Stan Kelly-Bootle Reader. Software Development Magazine has named him as the first recipient of the new annual Stan Kelly-Bootle Eclectech Award for his "lifetime achievements in technology and letters." Neither Nobel nor Turing achieved such prized eponymous recognition. Under his nom-de-folk, Stan Kelly, he has enjoyed a parallel career as a singer and songwriter. |
ConversationsA series of interviews, edited by John Stanik. |
A searchable index (title, author, year) of all 1235 ACM Queue articles (excluding table of contents, front covers, commercials).
Common themes: software; conversations; data; system; enterprise; distributed; cloud; performance;

A searchable index of 922 ACM Queue authors. 137 authors published multiple articles.

John Stanik | 51 articles |
Charlene O'Hanlon | 46 articles |
George Neville-Neil | 36 articles |
Edward Grossman | 34 articles |
Stan Kelly-Bootle | 29 articles |
Kate Matsudaira | 26 articles |
Pat Helland | 26 articles |
Thomas Limoncelli | 23 articles |
Poul-Henning Kamp | 22 articles |
Mache Creeger | 17 articles |
Terry Coatta | 15 articles |
Terence Kelly | 13 articles |
Eric Allman | 13 articles |
Jessie Frazelle | 12 articles |
Jim Maurer | 10 articles |
Alexander Wolfe | 10 articles |
Erik Meijer | 9 articles |
Radu State | 8 articles |
Ivar Jacobson | 7 articles |
Jim Waldo | 7 articles |
Adrian Colyer | 7 articles |
Peter Bailis | 7 articles |
Phillip Laplante | 7 articles |
Nicole Forsgren | 6 articles |
Alex Bell | 6 articles |
Marshall McKusick | 6 articles |
David Brown | 6 articles |
Jef Raskin | 6 articles |
Peter Alvaro | 5 articles |
Atefeh Mashatan | 5 articles |
Tom Killalea | 5 articles |
Zachary Lipton | 4 articles |
Phil Vachon | 4 articles |
Jeremy Clark | 4 articles |
Paul Vixie | 4 articles |
Thomas Wadlow | 4 articles |
James Maurer | 4 articles |
Jim Gray | 4 articles |
Stuart Feldman | 4 articles |
Rodney Bates | 4 articles |
Michaela Greiler | 3 articles |
Brian Houck | 3 articles |
Margaret-Anne Storey | 3 articles |
Sylvan Clebsch | 3 articles |
Manuel Costa | 3 articles |
Kapil Vaswani | 3 articles |
Mark Russinovich | 3 articles |
Alvaro Videla | 3 articles |
Margo Seltzer | 3 articles |
Christopher Ré | 3 articles |
Arvind Narayanan | 3 articles |
Betsy Beyer | 3 articles |
Vivek Rau | 3 articles |
Ian Spence | 3 articles |
Van Jacobson | 3 articles |
Brendan Gregg | 3 articles |
Michael Donat | 3 articles |
Vlad Gorelik | 3 articles |
S. Balaraman | 3 articles |
Bryan Cantrill | 3 articles |
Michi Henning | 3 articles |
Fernando Berzal Galiano | 3 articles |
Josh Coates | 3 articles |
Eirini Kalliamvakou | 2 articles |
Abi Noda | 2 articles |
David Chisnall | 2 articles |
David Collier-Brown | 2 articles |
Antoine Delignat-Lavaud | 2 articles |
Cédric Fournet | 2 articles |
Edlyn Levine | 2 articles |
Christian Bird | 2 articles |
Thomas Zimmermann | 2 articles |
Kavita Guliani | 2 articles |
Chris McCubbin | 2 articles |
Ashish Gehani | 2 articles |
Didem Demirag | 2 articles |
Martin Kleppmann | 2 articles |
Whitfield Diffie | 2 articles |
Jenna Butler | 2 articles |
Patrick Thomson | 2 articles |
Brian Kerr | 2 articles |
Devon O'Dell | 2 articles |
Camille Fournier | 2 articles |
Ulan Degenbaev | 2 articles |
Hannes Payer | 2 articles |
Benjamin Treynor Sloss | 2 articles |
Shylaja Nukala | 2 articles |
Theo Schlossnagle | 2 articles |
Malte Schwarzkopf | 2 articles |
Satnam Singh | 2 articles |
Alexandra Fedorova | 2 articles |
Steve Bourne | 2 articles |
Jeffrey Heer | 2 articles |
Ben Laurie | 2 articles |
Vinton Cerf | 2 articles |
Maged Michael | 2 articles |
David Bacon | 2 articles |
Robert Watson | 2 articles |
Jeremiah Grossman | 2 articles |
Kripa Krishnan | 2 articles |
Jim Gettys | 2 articles |
David Rosenthal | 2 articles |
Eser Kandogan | 2 articles |
Paul Maglio | 2 articles |
George Phillips | 2 articles |
Peter Phillips | 2 articles |
Adam Leventhal | 2 articles |
John Stone | 2 articles |
David Bellin | 2 articles |
David Naugler | 2 articles |
Werner Vogels | 2 articles |
Markus Wolf | 2 articles |
Ulrich Drepper | 2 articles |
Jeffrey Putnam | 2 articles |
Chris Richardson | 2 articles |
Shantanu Bhattacharya | 2 articles |
Andrea Paramithiotti | 2 articles |
Daniel Geer Jr. | 2 articles |
Richard Ford | 2 articles |
Diomidis Spinellis | 2 articles |
John Mashey | 2 articles |
Jim Christensen | 2 articles |
Wendy Kellogg | 2 articles |
Bayard Kohlhepp | 2 articles |
Andreas Tomek | 2 articles |
Jim Barton | 2 articles |
John Viega | 2 articles |
Randy Harr | 2 articles |
Bruce Schneier | 2 articles |
André Mariën | 2 articles |
Arun Ektare | 2 articles |
Donn Seeley | 2 articles |
Stephen Bourne | 2 articles |
Gordon Bell | 2 articles |
Herbert Thompson | 2 articles |
Homayoun Shahri | 2 articles |
Hal Varian | 2 articles |
Divyansh Kaushik | 1 article |
Alex John London | 1 article |
Manuel Rigger | 1 article |
Nigel Smart | 1 article |
Joshua Baron | 1 article |
Sanjay Saravanan | 1 article |
Jordan Brandt | 1 article |
Qian Li | 1 article |
Peter Kraft | 1 article |
Mansi Khemka | 1 article |
Raluca Ada Popa | 1 article |
Stavros Volos | 1 article |
Ken Gordon | 1 article |
Sean Allen | 1 article |
Christoph Wintersteiger | 1 article |
John Starks | 1 article |
Jinnan Guo | 1 article |
Peter Pietzuch | 1 article |
Andrew Paverd | 1 article |
Charles Garcia-Tobin | 1 article |
Mark Knight | 1 article |
Christoph Kern | 1 article |
Yifei Wang | 1 article |
Queenie Luo | 1 article |
Michael Puett | 1 article |
Michael Smith | 1 article |
Padmal Vitharana | 1 article |
Shahir Daya | 1 article |
Geoffrey Cooper | 1 article |
Alistair Cockburn | 1 article |
António Trigo | 1 article |
Miguel Almeida | 1 article |
Harsh Deokuliar | 1 article |
Raghvinder Sangwan | 1 article |
Youakim Badr | 1 article |
Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan | 1 article |
Maik Riechert | 1 article |
David Kaplan | 1 article |
Gobikrishna Dhanuskodi | 1 article |
Sudeshna Guha | 1 article |
Vidhya Krishnan | 1 article |
Aruna Manjunatha | 1 article |
Michael O'Connor | 1 article |
Rob Nertney | 1 article |
Phil Rogers | 1 article |
Ethan Miller | 1 article |
Achilles Benetopoulos | 1 article |
Daniel Bittman | 1 article |
A. Theodore Markettos | 1 article |
Simon Moore | 1 article |
Kostis Kaffes | 1 article |
Amanda Casari | 1 article |
Julia Ferraioli | 1 article |
Zachary Tellman | 1 article |
Jon Stewart | 1 article |
Yekai Pan | 1 article |
Alfred Spector | 1 article |
Peter Norvig | 1 article |
Chris Wiggins | 1 article |
Jeannette Wing | 1 article |
Ben Fried | 1 article |
Michael Tingley | 1 article |
Kelly Shortridge | 1 article |
Josiah Dykstra | 1 article |
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Danny Tsang | 1 article |
Jason McKenney | 1 article |
João Dinis Ferreira | 1 article |
Stefan Nagy | 1 article |
Denae Ford | 1 article |
Travis Lowdermilk | 1 article |
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Peter Ward | 1 article |
Paul Wankadia | 1 article |
Maya Kaczorowski | 1 article |
Falcon Momot | 1 article |
Jorge Navas | 1 article |
Ram Alagappan | 1 article |
Michael Loftus | 1 article |
Andrew Vezina | 1 article |
Rick Doten | 1 article |
Raphael Auer | 1 article |
Rainer Böhme | 1 article |
Matthew Bush | 1 article |
Sutapa Mondal | 1 article |
Mangesh Gharote | 1 article |
Sachin Premsukh Lodha | 1 article |
James Hughes | 1 article |
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Adam Cole | 1 article |
Benoit Baudry | 1 article |
Eleftheria Katsiri | 1 article |
Archie Cobbs | 1 article |
Brian Eaton | 1 article |
Jeff Sterart | 1 article |
Jon Tedesco | 1 article |
N. Cihan Tas | 1 article |
Valerie Chen | 1 article |
Jeffrey Li | 1 article |
Joon Sik Kim | 1 article |
Gregory Plumb | 1 article |
Ameet Talwalkar | 1 article |
Michael Mattioli | 1 article |
Reynold Xin | 1 article |
Wes McKinney | 1 article |
Alan Gates | 1 article |
Ryan Petrich | 1 article |
Kallista Bonawitz | 1 article |
Peter Kairouz | 1 article |
Brendan McMahan | 1 article |
Daniel Ramage | 1 article |
Mike Olson | 1 article |
Kirk McCusick | 1 article |
Timothy Clem | 1 article |
Ayman Nadeem | 1 article |
Daniil Tiganov | 1 article |
Lisa Nguyen Quang Do | 1 article |
Karim Ali | 1 article |
Liu Leqi | 1 article |
Dylan Hadfield-Menell | 1 article |
Raza Ahmad | 1 article |
Hassan Irshad | 1 article |
Jianqiao Zhu | 1 article |
Jignesh Patel | 1 article |
Piero Molino | 1 article |
Torsten Ullrich | 1 article |
Michael Gardiner | 1 article |
Alexander Truskovsky | 1 article |
Douglas Heintzman | 1 article |
Weiwei Gu | 1 article |
Vladimir Maksimovski | 1 article |
Ramya Srinivasan | 1 article |
Ajay Chander | 1 article |
João Varajão | 1 article |
Niklas Blum | 1 article |
Serge Lachapelle | 1 article |
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Vikas Bhatia | 1 article |
Chandra Shekhar Maddila | 1 article |
Jatinder Singh | 1 article |
Jennifer Cobbe | 1 article |
Do Le Quoc | 1 article |
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Chris Nokleberg | 1 article |
Brad Hawkes | 1 article |
Miguel Guevara | 1 article |
Damien Desfontaines | 1 article |
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Roger Piqueras Jover | 1 article |
Jeff Sutherland | 1 article |
Oskar Mencer | 1 article |
Dennis Allison | 1 article |
Elad Blatt | 1 article |
Mark Cummings | 1 article |
Michael Flynn | 1 article |
Jerry Harris | 1 article |
Carl Hewitt | 1 article |
Quinn Jacobson | 1 article |
Maysam Lavasani | 1 article |
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Hal Murray | 1 article |
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David Woods | 1 article |
Richard Cook | 1 article |
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Robert Cunningham | 1 article |
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Russ Cox | 1 article |
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Yuqing Gao | 1 article |
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Richard McDonald | 1 article |
Michael Lippautz | 1 article |
Aleksander Kuzmanovic | 1 article |
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Roly Stimson | 1 article |
Richard Sites | 1 article |
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Christian Martindale | 1 article |
Jacek Czerwonka | 1 article |
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Ashleigh Rentz | 1 article |
Alpha Lam | 1 article |
Rich Bennett | 1 article |
Craig Callahan | 1 article |
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Matt Levine | 1 article |
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Patrick Baudisch | 1 article |
Mike Dahlin | 1 article |
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Robert Guo | 1 article |
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Ed Harris | 1 article |
Meng-Day (Mandel) Yu | 1 article |
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Andrew Miller | 1 article |
Song Han | 1 article |
Irene Zhang | 1 article |
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