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One rounding or two: the trade in fused multiply-add

One serial, several ISSNs: print, electronic and linking numbers

One Waterloo research thread, two software companies

Patrick Winston as a teacher of artificial intelligence and clear speaking

Paul Hudak: a Haskell designer who taught, chaired and made music

Petri nets: the trade between modeling power and analysis

Planning the work of 450 human computers

Prizes, a blog and a collection of testimonials

Probabilistic models from Bayes to drug discovery

Programming the Mark 1 in teleprinter code

Provable security and zero-knowledge proofs: how Goldwasser reframed cryptography

Pseudocode: a notation with no standard form, from pidgin ALGOL to executable mathematics

Queueing theory, the first ARPANET message and the packet switching priority dispute

Randy Pausch and the teaching of computing as a creative craft

Reducing clutter: Marissa Mayer and the design of Google search

Remaking IBM around services, analytics and cloud

Robert Cailliau and the organizing work that carried the Web out of CERN

Seymour Cray and the fast system, not just the fast processor

Sharing data without missing deadlines

Six layers that made an operating system testable

StreetTalk and the directory services race

Sugar and the case for removing the desktop

Telescript agents and the PersonaLink bottleneck on Magic Cap

The 1936 Proof That Gave Computing Its Founding Thesis

The 1971 paper that defined NP-completeness

The 1998 root nameserver test and the limits of informal trust

The 701 and the five computer misquote

The Accidental Name Behind Linux, and the Dispute Over What to Call It

The AKS primality test and its creator

The byte decision and the book that followed System/360

The calculating clock and the question of who came first

The Cellular Automaton That Became a Lawsuit, and a Book

The Centaur Fuel Mix Behind Annie Easley, and the Career NASA Nearly Erased

The Convolutional Network That Learned to Read Checks

The Daikatana Ad That Haunted a Doom Co-Creator

The density detour that made DOS 3 unpopular

The dispute over BINAC after delivery

The first portable Unix and where it travelled

The four proposals of the Translation memorandum

The mission that came before the mouse

The Pascaline: an expensive calculator and its survivors

The Patent Dispute Behind Carmack's Reverse

The Program That Wrote a Program: Grace Hopper's Account of What Betty Holberton Actually Built

The Scale Fei-Fei Li Insisted ImageNet Needed

The security cartridge that erased itself, and the 2007 break

The standalone DOS that Windows 95 absorbed

The Turing Award's Own Words for What Berners-Lee Built

The Z2: relay logic in front of a mechanical memory

Threads everywhere: how BeOS was built and what outlived Be

Three authors behind one name: who found Kolmogorov complexity