"Secure Multiparty Computations on Bitcoin" introduces an exciting new idea for how to provide fairness: leverage Bitcoin’s existing infrastructure for distributed...David Wagner From Communications of the ACM | April 2016
In this work, we propose to use Bitcoin to design fully decentralized protocols that are secure even if no trusted third party is available.Marcin Andrychowicz, Stefan Dziembowski, Daniel Malinowski, Ćukasz Mazurek From Communications of the ACM | April 2016
In "Learning to Name Objects," the authors offer a method to determine a basic-level category name for an object in an image.David Forsyth From Communications of the ACM | March 2016
This paper looks at the problem of predicting category labels that mimic how human observers would name objects.Vicente Ordonez, Wei Liu, Jia Deng, Yejin Choi, Alexander C. Berg, Tamara L. Berg From Communications of the ACM | March 2016
The system described in "Pinocchio: Nearly Practical Verifiable Computation" refines an important theoretical advance by Gennaro et al. Together, these two works represent...Michael Mitzenmacher, Justin Thaler From Communications of the ACM | February 2016
We introduce Pinocchio, a built system for efficiently verifying general computations while relying only on cryptographic assumptions.
Bryan Parno, Jon Howell, Craig Gentry, Mariana Raykova From Communications of the ACM | February 2016
"Bare-Metal Performance for Virtual Machines with Exitless Interrupts" shows how to enable a virtual machine to attain "bare metal" performance from high-speed...Steve Hand From Communications of the ACM | January 2016
We present ExitLess Interrupts (ELI), a software-only approach for handling interrupts within guest virtual machines directly and securely.Nadav Amit, Abel Gordon, Nadav Har'El, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Alex Landau, Assaf Schuster, Dan Tsafrir From Communications of the ACM | January 2016
"NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files" investigates extending a DBMS so it can use the file data in situ, without having to load it first.David Maier From Communications of the ACM | December 2015
We here present the design and roadmap of a new paradigm in database systems, called NoDB, which do not require data loading while still maintaining the whole feature...Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Miguel Branco, Stratos Idreos, Anastasia Ailamaki From Communications of the ACM | December 2015
"Software Dataplane Verification" takes existing static checking of networks to a new level by checking the real code in the forwarding path of a Click router using...George Varghese From Communications of the ACM | November 2015
We present the result of working iteratively on two tasks: designing a domain-specific verification tool for packet-processing software, while trying to identify...Mihai Dobrescu, Katerina Argyraki From Communications of the ACM | November 2015
The authors of IllumiRoom investigate what AR/VR could look like in a truly social environment — the living room.Patrick Baudisch From Communications of the ACM | June 2015
IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept system that surrounds a television with projected light, bringing video games, and film experiences out of the TV screen and into...Brett R. Jones, Hrvoje Benko, Eyal Ofek, Andrew D. Wilson From Communications of the ACM | June 2015
"Can Traditional Programming Bridge the Ninja Performance Gap for Parallel Computing Applications" advocates an appealing division of labor between a developer...James Larus From Communications of the ACM | May 2015
Current processor trends of integrating more cores with SIMD units have made it more to extract performance from applications. It is believed that traditional...Nadathur Satish, Changkyu Kim, Jatin Chhugani, Hideki Saito, Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Milind Girkar, Pradeep Dubey From Communications of the ACM | May 2015
Specialization improves energy-efficiency in computing but only makes economic sense if there is significant demand. A balance can often be found by designing...Trevor Mudge From Communications of the ACM | April 2015
We present the Convolution Engine (CE) — a programmable processor specialized for the convolution-like data-flow prevalent in computational photography, computer...Wajahat Qadeer, Rehan Hameed, Ofer Shacham, Preethi Venkatesan, Christos Kozyrakis, Mark Horowitz From Communications of the ACM | April 2015
"Neural Acceleration for General-Purpose Approximate Programs" demonstrates the significant advantages in cost, power, and latency through approximate computing...Ravi Nair From Communications of the ACM | January 2015
This paper describes a new approach that uses machine learning-based transformations to accelerate approximation-tolerant programs.Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Adrian Sampson, Luis Ceze, Doug Burger From Communications of the ACM | January 2015