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Technical Perspective: Borrowing Big Code to Automate Programming Activities
"Predicting Program Properties from 'Big Code'" presents new techniques for leveraging big code to automate two programming activities: selecting understandable...
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Predicting Program Properties from 'Big Code'
We present a new approach for predicting program properties from large codebases (aka "Big Code").
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Technical Perspective: How Economic Theories Can Help Computers Beat the Heat
The authors of "Distributed Strategies for Computational Sprints" bring the rich theory of allocating scarce resources to the challenge of managing computational...
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Distributed Strategies for Computational Sprints
We describe a computational sprinting architecture in which many, independent chip multiprocessors share a power supply and sprints are constrained by the chips'...
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Technical Perspective: To Do or Not To Do: Extending SQL with Integer Linear Programming?
"Scalable Computation of High-Order Optimization Queries," by Brucato et al., makes a case for marrying the well-established paradigms of constrained optimization...
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Scalable Computation of High-Order Optimization Queries
We present a complete system that supports package queries, a new query model that extends traditional database queries to handle complex constraints and preferences...
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Technical Perspective: Photorealistic Facial Digitization and Manipulation
If facial performance capture is possible for conventional RGB videos in real time, then believable facial expressions can be transferred effortlessly from one...
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Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos
Face2Face is an approach for real-time facial reenactment of a monocular target video sequence (e.g., Youtube video). Our goal is to animate the facial expressions...
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Technical Perspective: Attacking Cryptographic Key Exchange with Precomputation
"Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice," by David Adrian et al., illustrates the importance of taking preprocessing attacks into account...
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Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice
We investigate the security of Diffie-Hellman key exchange as used in popular Internet protocols and find it to be less secure than widely believed.
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Technical Perspective: WebAssembly: A Quiet Revolution of the Web
"Bringing the Web Up to Speed with WebAssembly," by Rossberg et al., gives an overview of the initial design of WebAssembly, a new low-level programming language...
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Bringing the Web Up to Speed with WebAssembly
WebAssembly is the first mainstream language designed from the start with a formal semantics. It not only demonstrates the feasibility of applying formal techniques...
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Technical Perspective: Node Replication Divides to Conquer
In "How to Implement Any Concurrent Data Structure," Calciu et al. show that a concurrent data structure can be built automatically and that its performance is...
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How to Implement Any Concurrent Data Structure
We propose a method called Node Replication (NR) to implement any concurrent data structure.
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Technical Perspective: Making Sleep Tracking More User Friendly
"LIBS: A Bioelectrical Sensing System from Human Ears for Staging Whole-Night Sleep Study" provides a nice balance in terms of minimizing the burden on users and...
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LIBS: A Bioelectrical Sensing System from Human Ears for Staging Whole-Night Sleep Study
We explore a new form of wearable systems, called LIBS, that can continuously record biosignals such as brain wave, eye movements, and facial muscle contractions...
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Technical Perspective: Backdoor Engineering
"Where Did I Leave My Keys?" by Checkoway et al. reports on the amazing independent reconstruction of a backdoor, discovered in the firmware of a VPN router commonly...
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Where Did I Leave My Keys?: Lessons from the Juniper Dual EC Incident
In this paper, we describe the results of a full independent analysis of the ScreenOS randomness and VPN key establishment protocol subsystems, which we carried...
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Technical Perspective: The Future of MPI
"Enabling Highly Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided" convincingly shows that the potential of MPI one-sided communication can be realized...
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