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Building Secure Web Applications With Automatic Partitioning
Swift is a new, principled approach to building Web applications that are secure by construction. Swift automatically partitions application code while providing...
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Technical Perspective: Tools For Information to Flow Securely and Swift-ly
Back in the old days of the Web (before 1995), Web browsers were fairly simple devices. The server's Web interface was simple enough that an auditor could at least...
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Seam Carving For Media Retargeting
Traditional image resizing techniques are oblivious to the content of the image when changing its width or height. In contrast, media (i.e., image and video) retargeting...
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Technical Perspective: Customizing Media to Displays
A mind-boggling array of displays differ greatly in resolutions and aspect ratios. But images and videos are captured at fixed resolutions and aspect ratios, and...
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Polaris: A System For Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Databases
In this paper, we address these demands by presenting the Polaris formalism, a visual query language for precisely describing a wide range of table-based graphical...
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Technical Perspective: The Polaris Tableau System
Jim Gray nominated the Polaris paper for the Research Highlights section and wrote the first draft of this Technical Perspective in November 2006. David Patterson...
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Technical Perspective: Computational Photography on Large Collections of Images
This paper wil strike a familiar chord with anyone who has ever taken a picture. The problem is easy to understand— replacing unwanted parts of a photograph.
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Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs
What can you do with a million images? In this paper, we present a new image completion algorithm powered by a huge database of photographs gathered from the Web...
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Technical Perspective: Transactional Memory in the Operating System
The long tradition of building ever-faster processors is ending, with the computer industry instead putting more...
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TxLinux and MetaTM: Transactional Memory and the Operating System
TxLinux is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the scheduler. TxLinux...
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Technical Perspective: A Methodology For Evaluating Computer System Performance
Computer science has long had a solid foundation for evaluating the performance of algorithms. The asymptotic...
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Technical Perspective: Transactions Are Tomorrow's Loads and Stores
In computer science, when we say "time is money," we typically refer to two types of time that determine the costs and benefits...
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Composable Memory Transactions
In this paper we present a concurrency model based on transactional memory. All the usualblocking and choice...
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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Evaluation Methodology For the 21st Century
Evaluation methodology underpins all innovation in experimental computer science. It requires relevant workloads, appropriate experimental design, and rigorous...
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Technical Perspective: Computer Science Takes on Molecular Dynamics
The following paper by researcher David Shaw and colleagues describes their Anton molecular dynamics engine....
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Anton, A Special-Purpose Machine For Molecular Dynamics Simulation
The ability to perform long, accurate molecular dynamics (MD) simulations involving proteins and other biological macro-molecules could in principle provide answers...
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The Emergence of a Networking Primitive in Wireless Sensor Networks
The wireless sensor network community approached networking abstractions as an open question, allowing answers to emerge with time and experience. The Trickle algorithm...
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