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Technical Perspective: Traffic Classification in the Era of Deep Learning
"Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web," by Iman Akbari et al., does a great job in reviewing related work in the network traffic classification...
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Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web
In this paper, we design a novel feature engineering approach used for encrypted Web protocols, and develop a neural network architecture based on stacked long...
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Technical Perspective: Physical Layer Resilience through Deep Learning in Software Radios
"Polymorphic Wireless Receivers," by Francesco Restuccia and Tommaso Melodia, tackles the problem of physical layer resilience in wireless systems from a completely...
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Polymorphic Wireless Receivers
We introduce PolymoRF, a deep learning-based polymorphic receiver able to reconfigure itself in real time based on the inferred waveform parameters.
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Technical Perspective: 'What Is the Ideal Operating System?'
The authors of "Set the Configuration for the Heart of the OS" put a fresh view on the practicability of automatic kernel debloating.
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Set the Configuration for the Heart of the OS: On the Practicality of Operating System Kernel Debloating
This paper presents a study on the practicality of operating system kernel debloating, that is, reducing kernel code that is not needed by the target applications...
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Technical Perspective: How Do Experts Learn New Programming Languages?
"Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language?" by Shrestha et al. provides insight into the difficulty of learning...
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Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language?
Our findings demonstrate that interference is a widespread phenomenon, forcing programmers to adopt suboptimal, opportunistic learning strategies.
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Technical Perspective: Applying Design-Space Exploration to Quantum Architectures
"Toward Systematic Architectural Design of Near-Term Trapped Ion Quantum Computers" presents a study on scaling trapped-ion quantum architectures, and challenges...
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Toward Systematic Architectural Design of Near-Term Trapped Ion Quantum Computers
Toward realizing QCCD-based trapped ion systems with 50-100 qubits, we perform an extensive application-driven architectural study evaluating the key design choices...
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Technical Perspective: Personalized Recommendation of PoIs to People with Autism
"Supporting People with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Exploration of PoIs" is an example of work that takes seriously the task of supporting a small group that...
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Supporting People with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Exploration of PoIs: An Inclusive Recommender System
We propose a novel Top-N recommendation model that combines information about an autistic user's idiosyncratic aversions with her/his preferences in a personalized...
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Technical Perspective: On Proofs, Entanglement, and Games
"MIP* = RE," by Zhengfeng Ji et al., studies quantum interactive proofs.
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MIP* = RE
In this work, we study a fourth modification to the notion of efficient verification that originates in the study of quantum entanglement.
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Technical Perspective: Does Your Experiment Smell?
"PlanAlyzer," by Emma Tosch et al., details PlanAlyzer software, the first tool to statically check the validity of online experiments.
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PlanAlyzer: Assessing Threats to the Validity of Online Experiments
We present the first approach for checking the internal validity of online experiments statically, that is, from code alone.
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Technical Perspective: Tracking Pandemic-Driven Internet Traffic
"A Year in Lockdown," by Anja Feldmann, et al., offers a detailed look at how Internet traffic changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A Year in Lockdown: How the Waves of COVID-19 Impact Internet Traffic
We review the impact of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic on Internet traffic in order to analyze its performance.
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Technical Perspective: Programming Microfluidics to Execute Biological Protocols
The approach taken in "BioScript," by Jason Ott, et al., is an example of how programming languages can help develop executable protocols that are conforming, understandable...
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