Communications of the ACM
Research Archive
The Research archive provides access to all Research articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
December 2021
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Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven
We present software-defined cooking (SDC), a low-cost closed-loop microwave oven system that aims to heat food in a software-defined thermal trajectory.
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Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data
This paper proposes speculative taint tracking (STT), a high security and high performance hardware mechanism, to block speculative execution attacks.
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Technical Perspective: Cooking Up a Solution to Microwave Heat Distribution
"Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven," by Haojian Jin et al., introduces a feedback mechanism to microwave heating through a technique the authors call software-defined cooking.
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Technical Perspective: A Recipe for Protecting Against Speculation Attacks
"Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data," by Jiyong Yu et al., might be a beginning of an end to speculation-based attacks.