Reliability at Multiple Stages in a Data Analysis Pipeline
Data-centric methods designed to increase end-to-end reliability of data-driven decision systems.
Research and Advances
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Intent-Based Networking for the Enterprise: A Modern Network Architecture
IBN promises to better align network operations with enterprise intent, but several challenges must be resolved before it can reach its full potential.
Technical Perspective: The Power of Low-Power GPS Receivers for Nanosats
The work explored in "Hummingbird," by Sujay Narayana et al., focuses on the energy consumption of a typical GPS receiver and its operational challenges in a nanosat setting.
Hummingbird: An Energy-Efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites
In this work, we elucidate the design of a low-cost, low-power GPS receiver for small satellites.
Technical Perspective: Achieve Big with Devices that Track Small Things
"AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking," by Farshid Salemi Parizi, Eric Whitmire, and Shwetak Patel, details the AuraRing system's remarkable ability to sense user interactions at high granularities.
Assessing the Quantum-Computing Landscape
A summative assessment of quantum computing's progress, based on market readiness and investment levels, and its future implications.
Should Young Computer Scientists Stop Collaborating with Their Doctoral Advisors?
Factors that impact (positively and negatively) the advisor-advisee relationship.
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 space.
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 short-term memory layers and convolutional neural networks.
AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking
We present AuraRing, a wearable magnetic tracking system designed for tracking fine-grained finger movement.
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 new perspective.
Technical Perspective: The Effectiveness of Security Measures
"Measuring Security Practices," by Louis F. DeKoven et al., provide a unique perspective into how users choose to implement common security advice in practice.
This paper seeks to make progress on the prevalence of popular security practices and their relationship to security outcomes via the longitudinal empirical measurement of a large population of computer devices.
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.
Advancing the Ability of Robots to Help
ACM Athena Lecturer Ayanna Howard considers the benefits of robotics and the potential drawbacks of overtrust.
Deconstructing the Bakery to Build a Distributed State Machine
A rigorous journey from the bakery algorithm to a distributed state machine.
When SDN and Blockchain Shake Hands
A survey of recent efforts to combine SDN and BC shows promising results and points to directions for future research.
Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness
We propose several efficient data structures for the exact and approximate variants of the fair near neighbor problem.
hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs
We present hXDP, a solution to run on FPGAs software packet processing tasks described with the eBPF technology and targeting the Linux's eXpress Data Path.
Technical Perspective: Can Data Structures Treat Us Fairly?
In "Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness," Aumüller et al. investigate a basic problem in similarity search called near neighbor in the context of fair data structures.
Technical Perspective: hXDP: Light and Efficient Packet Processing Offload
In "hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs," the authors offer an interesting solution to bridging the performance gap between the CPU and the home network.
Advances in the Quantum Internet
A deep dive into the quantum Internet's potential to transform and disrupt.
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