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Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers(cs.cmu.edu)

58 points by azhenley 8 days ago | 69 comments

CMU School of Computer Science news article announcing a Microsoft partnership to train early career software engineers.

Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)(cs.cmu.edu)

54 points by nicoraga 1 month ago | 20 comments

Manuel Blum's talk notes at CMU offering advice to beginning graduate students on reading, studying, research, and writing during a PhD.

A Switch-Level Simulation Model for Integrated Logic Circuits (1981) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

11 points by gregsadetsky 1 month ago | 1 comments

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review(cs.cmu.edu)

640 points by viveknathani_ 9 months ago | 173 comments

Andy Pavlo's annual blog post reviewing the major trends and happenings in the database industry during 2025.

The x86 Interrupt List, aka “Ralf Brown's Interrupt List” (2018)(cs.cmu.edu)

77 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 21 comments

Feature Flags vs. Configuration Options – Same Difference?(cs.cmu.edu)

45 points by m0nhawk 1 year ago | 4 comments

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review(cs.cmu.edu)

545 points by avinassh 1 year ago | 175 comments

Andy Pavlo's annual blog retrospective on the database industry in 2024, covering acquisitions, license changes, and other notable events.

Reasonable Person Principle(cs.cmu.edu)

59 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 41 comments

MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)(cs.cmu.edu)

341 points by virtualwhys 2 years ago | 109 comments

Andy Pavlo blog post from April 2023 criticizing PostgreSQL's multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) implementation and its drawbacks.

Pseudo Scheme: Scheme Implemented on Top of Common Lisp(cs.cmu.edu)

47 points by interpunct 2 years ago | 15 comments

The power of interoperability: Why objects are inevitable (2013) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

29 points by pramodbiligiri 2 years ago | 15 comments

Xerion: Neural Network Simulator (1995)(cs.cmu.edu)

18 points by tosh 2 years ago | 3 comments

My favorite database shirts(cs.cmu.edu)

218 points by k-rus 2 years ago | 126 comments

Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)(cs.cmu.edu)

1552 points by isomorph 3 years ago | 461 comments

A classic humorous anecdote about a car that seemingly wouldn't start only after its owner bought vanilla ice cream, hosted as a text file at CMU.

A CD Spectrometer (2006)(cs.cmu.edu)

196 points by wcrossbow 3 years ago | 42 comments

Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)(cs.cmu.edu)

256 points by Asdrubalini 3 years ago | 131 comments

Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without Agonizing Pain (1994) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

58 points by chmike 3 years ago | 14 comments

C89 compiler produces printable executables from C code [pdf] (2017)(cs.cmu.edu)

109 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 14 comments

Principles of Imperative Computation(cs.cmu.edu)

44 points by ggr2342 3 years ago | 26 comments

Building a new database management system in academia (2017)(cs.cmu.edu)

66 points by greghn 3 years ago | 34 comments

Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

327 points by debanjan16 3 years ago | 94 comments

Chris Okasaki's 1996 CMU PhD thesis on designing and analyzing purely functional data structures, hosted as a PDF.

Programming in Standard ML (2011) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

111 points by optbuild 3 years ago | 24 comments

Nobody cares about our concurrency control research [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

70 points by luu 3 years ago | 19 comments

Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998)(cs.cmu.edu)

105 points by DerekBickerton 3 years ago | 50 comments

Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons (2000) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

51 points by luu 3 years ago | 22 comments