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Declarative Networking
Declarative Networking is a programming methodology that enables developers to concisely specify network protocols and services, which are directly compiled to...
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Technical Perspective: Narrowing the Semantic Gap in Distributed Programming
In science, significant advances are often made when researchers from different communities join forces.
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Finding the Frequent Items in Streams of Data
Many data generation processes can be modeled as data streams. While this data may be archived and indexed within a data warehouse, it is also important to process...
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Technical Perspective: Data Stream Processing - When You Only Get One Look
The database and systems communities have made great progress in developing database systems that allow us to store and query huge amounts of data. Real-time analysis...
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Distinct-Value Synopses For Multiset Operations
The task of estimating the number of distinct values (DVs) in a large dataset arises in a wide variety of settings in computer science and elsewhere. We provide...
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Technical Perspective: Relational Query Optimization: Data Management Meets Statistical Estimation
Relational systems have made it possible to query large collections of data in a declarative style through languages such as SQL. There is a key component that...
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Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion
We all receive spam advertisements, but few of us have encountered a person who admits to following through on an offer and making a purchase. And yet, the relentlessness...
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Technical Perspective: They Do Click, Don't They?
You never click on advertisements received in spam or in phishing messages, do you? Nobody does. So, if that is...
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Statistical Analysis of Circuit Timing Using Majorization
Future miniaturization of silicon transistors following Moore's Law may be in jeopardy as it becomes harder to precisely define the behavior and shape of nanoscale...
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Technical Perspective: Where the Chips May Fall
The traditional approach to circuit design has been to build chips that work correctly at extreme-case process...
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Apprenticeship Learning For Helicopter Control
Autonomous helicopter flight is widely regarded to be a highly challenging control problem. As helicopters are highly unstable and exhibit complicated dynamical...
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Technical Perspective: The Ultimate Pilot Program
In one scene from The Matrix, two leaders of the human resistance are trapped on the roof of a skyscraper. The only means of escape is by helicopter, which neither...
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Two Hardware-Based Approaches For Deterministic Multiprocessor Replay
Modern computer systems are inherently nondeterministic due to a variety of events that occur during an execution. The lack of repeatability that arises from this...
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Technical Perspective: Software and Hardware Support For Deterministic Replay of Parallel Programs
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Securing Frame Communication in Browsers
Many Web sites embed third-party content in frames, relying on the browser's security policy to protect against malicious content. However, frames provide insufficient...
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Technical Perspective: Reframing Security For the Web
The web has brought exciting new functionality while simultaneously requiring new mechanisms to make it secure. We've...
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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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Integrating Nand Flash Devices Onto Servers
In this paper, we examine the use of Flash storage in the server domain. Wear-out has the potential to limit the use of Flash in this domain. To seriously consider...
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