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Vetting Browser Extensions For Security Vulnerabilities with VEX
The browser has become the de facto platform for everyday computation and a popular target for attackers of computer systems. Among the many potential attacks that...
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Technical Perspective: Skintroducing the Future
Two critical goals for mobile devices seem intrinsically in conflict. For carrying, the smaller the better. Yet for...
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Skinput: Appropriating the Skin as an Interactive Canvas
Skinput is a technology that appropriates the skin as an input surface by analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through the body. Specifically, we resolve...
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Debugging in the (Very) Large: Ten Years of Implementation and Experience
Windows Error Reporting (WER) is a distributed system that automates the processing of error reports coming from an installed base of a billion machines. WER has...
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Technical Perspective: Is Scale Your Enemy, Or Is Scale Your Friend?
Scale has been the single most important force driving changes in system software over the last decade. Its impact is...
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Technical Perspective: FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes
The emergence of wimpy processors and FLASH met a promising deployment scenario in the field of large-scale data centers. The energy efficiency potential of these...
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FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes
This paper presents a fast array of wimpy nodes — FAWN — an approach for achieving low-power data-intensive data-center computing.
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Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets
Dremel is a scalable, interactive ad hoc query system for analysis of read-only nested data. By combining multilevel execution trees and columnar data layout, it...
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Technical Perspective: Data Analysis at Astonishing Speed
The importance of data analysis has never been clearer. Globe-spanning scientific collaborations are exploring...
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Technical Perspective: Complex Financial Products: Caveat Emptor
CDOs are examples of financial derivatives, with a value that depends on the underlying assets with which they are linked. These kinds of complex financial products...
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Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products
Securitization of cash flows using financial derivatives transformed the financial industry over the last three decades. Derivatives...
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Liability Issues in Software Engineering: The Use of Formal Methods to Reduce Legal Uncertainties
This paper reports on the results of a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with the aim to put forward a set of methods and tools...
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Technical Perspective: Liability Issues in Software Engineering
The paper by LeMétayer et al. addresses one technical issue in a large and serious problem in the production...
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VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network
VL2 is a practical network architecture that scales to support huge data centers with uniform high capacity between servers, performance isolation between services...
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Technical Perspective: VL2
The Internet is increasingly a platform for online services running on rack after rack of servers. With the advent of large data centers, the study of the networks...
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DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study
While a large body of work exists on DRAM in lab conditions, little has been reported on real DRAM failures in large production clusters. In this paper, we analyze...
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Technical Perspective: DRAM Errors in the Wild
In order to advance the field, knowledge of the types of memory errors at the system level, their frequencies, and conditions that exacerbate or are unrelated to...
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Path Selection and Multipath Congestion Control
This paper studies data transfers under two classes of multipath control, coordinated control where the rates...
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Technical Perspective: Multipath, A New Control Architecture For the Internet
Multipath transmission for the Internet—that is, allowing users to send some of their packets along one path and...
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