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Technical Perspective: The Strength of SuRF
The authors of "Succinct Range Filters" make a critical and insightful observation: For a given set of queries, the upper levels of the trie incur many more accesses...
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Succinct Range Filters
We present the Succinct Range Filter (SuRF), a fast and compact data structure for approximate membership tests.
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Technical Perspective: Why Don't Today's Deep Nets Overfit to Their Training Data?
"Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking Generalization," Chiyuan Zhang, et al., brings a fundamental new theoretical challenge: Why don't today's...
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Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking Generalization
In this work, we presented a simple experimental framework for interrogating purported measures of generalization.
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Technical Perspective: Solving the Signal Reconstruction Problem at Scale
"Scalable Signal Reconstruction for a Broad Range of Applications," by Abolfazl Asudeh, et al. shows that algorithmic insights about SRP, combined with database...
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Scalable Signal Reconstruction for a Broad Range of Applications
Most of the common approaches for solving signal reconstruction problem do not scale to large problem sizes. We propose a novel and scalable algorithm for solving...
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Technical Perspective: Programming Microfluidics to Execute Biological Protocols
The approach taken in "BioScript," by Jason Ott, et al., is an example of how programming languages can help develop executable protocols that are conforming, understandable...
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BioScript: Programming Safe Chemistry on Laboratories-on-a-Chip
This paper introduces BioScript, a domain-specific language for programmable biochemistry that executes on emerging microfluidic platforms.
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Technical Perspective: SkyCore's Architecture Takes It to the 'Edge'
"SkyCore," by Mehrdad Moradi, et al., addresses an exciting use case for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in which UAVs can act as mobile base stations for the cellular...
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SkyCore: Moving Core to the Edge for Untethered and Reliable UAV-Based LTE Networks
We argue for and propose an alternate, radical edge evolved packet core design, called SkyCore, that pushes the EPC functionality to the extreme edge of the core...
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Technical Perspective: Deciphering Errors to Reduce the Cost of Quantum Computation
In "Constant Overhead Quantum Fault Tolerance with Quantum Expander Codes," by Omar Fawzi, et al., the authors produce an algorithm that can rapidly deduce the...
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Constant Overhead Quantum Fault Tolerance with Quantum Expander Codes
In this paper, we study the asymptotic scaling of the space overhead needed for fault-tolerant quantum computation.
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Technical Perspective: The Future of Large-Scale Embedded Sensing
The system described in "SATURN: An Introduction to the Internet of Materials" works passively, energized essentially by static electricity generated as layers...
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SATURN: An Introduction to the Internet of Materials
We propose an Internet of Materials, where the very materials of objects and surfaces are augmented or manufactured to have computational capabilities.
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Technical Perspective: XNOR-Networks – Powerful but Tricky
How to produce a convolutional neural net that is small enough to run on a mobile device, and accurate enough to be worth using? The strategies in "Enabling AI...
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Enabling AI at the Edge with XNOR-Networks
We present a novel approach to running state-of-the-art AI algorithms in edge devices, and propose two efficient approximations to standard convolutional neural...
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Technical Perspective: BLeak: Semantics-Aware Leak Detection in the Web
What is the right leak oracle that can precisely capture the behavior of leaks in Web applications? "BLeak: Automatically Debugging Memory Leaks in Web Applications...
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BLeak: Automatically Debugging Memory Leaks in Web Applications
This paper introduces BLeak (Browser Leak debugger), the first system for automatically debugging memory leaks in web applications.
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Technical Perspective: Analyzing Smart Contracts with MadMax
"MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts," by Neville Grech et al., effectively discovers a new smart contract vulnerability, and proposes a detection...
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