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Lest We Remember: Cold-Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
DRAM retains its contents for several seconds after power is lost. Although DRAM becomes less reliable when it is not refreshed, it is not immediately erased, and...
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Technical Perspective: A Chilly Sense of Security
Many systems rely on keeping a master key secret. But technological progress can undermine old assumptions.
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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: 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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