Securitization of cash flows using financial derivatives transformed the financial industry over the last three decades. Derivatives...Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak, Markus Brunnermeier, Rong Ge From Communications of the ACM | May 2011
This paper reports on the results of a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with the aim to put forward a set of methods and tools...Daniel Le Métayer, Manuel Maarek, Eduardo Mazza, Marie-Laure Potet, Stéphane Frénot, Valérie Viet Triem Tong, Nicolas Craipeau, Ronan Hardouin From Communications of the ACM | April 2011
The paper by LeMétayer et al. addresses one technical issue in a large and serious problem in the production...Daniel M. Berry From Communications of the ACM | April 2011
VL2 is a practical network architecture that scales to support huge data centers with uniform high capacity between servers, performance isolation between services...Albert Greenberg, James R. Hamilton, Navendu Jain, Srikanth Kandula, Changhoon Kim, Parantap Lahiri, David A. Maltz, Parveen Patel, Sudipta Sengupta From Communications of the ACM | March 2011
The Internet is increasingly a platform for online services running on rack after rack of servers. With the advent of large data centers, the study of the networks...Jennifer Rexford From Communications of the ACM | March 2011
A system for musical accompaniment is presented in which a computer-driven orchestra follows and learns from a soloist in a concerto-like setting. The system's...Christopher Raphael From Communications of the ACM | March 2011
In the opening of Sibelius' Violin Concerto, a soloist plays delicately. The orchestra responds in kind. As...Juan Bello, Yann LeCun, Robert Rowe From Communications of the ACM | March 2011
While a large body of work exists on DRAM in lab conditions, little has been reported on real DRAM failures in large production clusters. In this paper, we analyze...Bianca Schroeder, Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber From Communications of the ACM | February 2011
In order to advance the field, knowledge of the types of memory errors at the system level, their frequencies, and conditions that exacerbate or are unrelated to...Norman P. Jouppi From Communications of the ACM | February 2011
This paper studies data transfers under two classes of multipath control, coordinated control where the rates...Peter Key, Laurent Massoulié, Don Towsley From Communications of the ACM | January 2011
Multipath transmission for the Internet—that is, allowing users to send some of their packets along one path and...Damon Wischik From Communications of the ACM | January 2011
Sora, a fully programmable software radio platform on commodity PC architectures, combines the performance and fidelity of hardware software-defined radio platforms...Kun Tan, He Liu, Jiansong Zhang, Yongguang Zhang, Ji Fang, Geoffrey M. Voelker From Communications of the ACM | January 2011
The objective of Sora is to build a software defined radio that combines the performance and fidelity of hardware...Dina Katabi From Communications of the ACM | January 2011
Virtual machine monitors are a popular platform for Internet hosting centers and cloud-based compute services. But main memory is not amenable to multiplexed hardware...Diwaker Gupta, Sangmin Lee, Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Amin Vahdat From Communications of the ACM | October 2010
The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in server virtualization. Diwaker Gupta et al. present a novel approach for significantly improving the efficiency of...Carl Waldspurger From Communications of the ACM | October 2010
Privacy Integrated Queries (PINQ) is an extensible data analysis platform designed to provide unconditional privacy guarantees for the records of the underlying...Frank McSherry From Communications of the ACM | September 2010
Government agencies worldwide release statistical information about population, education, and health, crime...Johannes Gehrke From Communications of the ACM | September 2010
Lightweight, embedded Web servers are soon about to outnumber regular Internet Web servers. We reveal a series of attacks that target...Hristo Bojinov, Elie Bursztein, Dan Boneh From Communications of the ACM | August 2010
A system is secure only if the entire system is secure. While this may sound obvious, achieving total security throughout a system is rarely trivial when you consider...Helen Wang From Communications of the ACM | August 2010
Recent challenges organized by DARPA have induced a significant advance in technology for autopilots for cars; similar to those already used in aircraft and marine...Sebastian Thrun From Communications of the ACM | April 2010