• Netnews: The Origin Story [pdf] https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/netnews-hist.pdf 5 comments 5/11/2024
• The Early History of Usenet (2019) https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14.html 24 comments 17/2/2024
• Common bugs in writing (2021) https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/etc/writing-bugs.html 96 comments 24/6/2023
• Self-Powered Camera (2015) https://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/self_powered_camera/ 4 comments 3/2/2022
• The Early History of Usenet, Part I: The Technological Setting https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14a.html 39 comments 19/11/2019
• The Early History of Usenet https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/control/tag_index.html#TH_Usenet_history 10 comments 16/11/2019
• The Enduring Legacy of Dennis Ritchie (2012) [pdf] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/Talks/12-09-07_DMR.pdf 18 comments 13/10/2019
• Hashed and Hierarchical Timing Wheels: Data Structures for Timers (1987) [pdf] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nahum/w6998/papers/sosp87-timing-wheels.pdf 3 comments 21/3/2019
• Microsoft is Abandoning SHA-1 Hashes for Updates https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-02/2019-02-19.html 58 comments 20/2/2019
• The Evolution of IPsec [pdf] https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/talks/why-ipsec.pdf 19 comments 9/2/2019
• Practical Memory Safety with Random Embedded Secret Tokens [pdf] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~simha/preprint_isca18_REST_memory_safety.pdf 5 comments 21/4/2018
• Posix Has Become Outdated (2016) [pdf] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine.pdf 237 comments 11/2/2017
• Deep Learning to Break Semantic Image CAPTCHAs [pdf] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~polakis/papers/sivakorn_eurosp16.pdf 8 comments 29/6/2016
• Surface-Only Liquids http://www.cs.columbia.edu/cg/surfaceliquids/ 12 comments 18/5/2016
• Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, the New, the Missing [pdf] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/POSIXpaper.pdf 51 comments 8/5/2016
• Characterizing Self-Healing Software Systems (2007) [pdf] https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/Papers/2007/mmm-acns-self.pdf 2 comments 4/11/2015
• A Stealthy GPU-Based Keylogger (2013) [pdf] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mikepo/papers/gpukeylogger.eurosec13.pdf 4 comments 4/5/2015
• This video camera is powered by light http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/self_powered_camera/ 17 comments 17/4/2015
• Frank Miller: Inventor of the One-Time Pad [pdf] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~CS4HS/talks/FrankMillerOneTimePad.pdf 4 comments 24/5/2014
• Permissive Action Links – how nuclear weapons are secured https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/nsam-160/pal.html 8 comments 6/2/2013
• Reconstructing an Apple II+ on an FPGA http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/apple2fpga/ 5 comments 2/8/2011
• How to Abolish the DNS Hierarchy -- But it's a Bad Idea https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2011-07/2011-07-02.html 4 comments 19/7/2011
• How DRM can hurt sales (Steve Bellovin) http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2010-07/2010-07-15.html 9 comments 15/7/2010
• The single biggest use of stolen University logins is to download papers http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2008-04/2008-04-27.html 9 comments 20/8/2008

• Trajectories For a Tank Drive Robot http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~allen/F15/NOTES/icckinematics.pdf 3 comments 10/4/2019 robotics
• Bjarne Stroustrup awarded 2017 Faraday Medal https://www.cs.columbia.edu/2017/bjarne-stroustrup-awarded-2017-faraday-medal/ 33 comments 26/9/2017 programming
• Bjarne Stroustrup awarded 2017 Faraday Medal https://www.cs.columbia.edu/2017/bjarne-stroustrup-awarded-2017-faraday-medal/ 21 comments 26/9/2017 cpp
• Solving Google's ReCaptcha service with ~70% accuracy http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~polakis/papers/sivakorn_eurosp16.pdf 13 comments 29/6/2016 programming
• Solving Google's ReCaptcha service with ~70% accuracy http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~polakis/papers/sivakorn_eurosp16.pdf 20 comments 29/6/2016 netsec
• Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, the New, the Missing [pdf] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/posixpaper.pdf 3 comments 8/5/2016 programming
• Cryptography is hard https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2015-12/2015-12-22.html 20 comments 22/12/2015 crypto
• Discrete Differential Geometry (includes huge pdf of notes and C++ code) http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~keenan/projects/dgpdec/ 10 comments 25/4/2015 math
• A Stealthy GPU-based Keylogger http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Emikepo/papers/gpukeylogger.eurosec13.pdf 8 comments 10/9/2013 netsec
• Analysis of the Go runtime scheduler [pdf] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/cs6998/reports/12-12-11_deshpandesponslerweiss_go.pdf 6 comments 6/8/2013 programming
• HCAS: Haskell Computer Algebra System [pdf] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/classes/2007/w4115-fall/reports/hcas.pdf 5 comments 27/8/2011 haskell
• Permissive Action Links http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/nsam-160/pal.html 6 comments 31/12/2008 programming
• Ships impounded for causing recent underground fiber cable cut http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2008-04/2008-04-08.html 2 comments 10/4/2008 worldnews
• Astronauts had to go through US Customs to return from Moon (scanned image of signed customs declaration) http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/imex.gif 64 comments 15/4/2007 science

• Determinism Is Not Enough: Making Parallel Programs Reliable with Stable Multithreading http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~junfeng/papers/smt-cacm.pdf 22 comments 27/2/2014 Implementation , Parallel/Distributed
• Library of data strcutres in a functional language http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cdo/edison/ 0 comments 13/9/2000