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A Theory Of Pricing Private Data
We describe the foundations of a market in which those seeking access to data must pay for it and individuals are compensated for the loss of privacy they may suffer...
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Technical Perspective: Solving Imperfect Information Games
"Heads-Up Limit Hold'em Poker Is Solved," by Michael Bowling, et al., takes the counterfactual regret minimization method for approximating a Nash equilibrium to...
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Heads-Up Limit Hold'em Poker Is Solved
This paper is an extended version of our original 2015 Science article, with additional results showing Cepheus' in-game performance against computer and human...
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Technical Perspective: Shedding New Light on an Old Language Debate
"A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub," by Baishakhi Ray, et al., studies whether programming language choice and code quality...
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A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github
What is the effect of programming languages on software quality? In this study, we gather a very large data set from GitHub in an attempt to shed some empirical...
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Technical Perspective: Broadening and Deepening Query Optimization Yet Still Making Progress
"Multi-Objective Parametric Query Optimization," by Immanuel Trummer and Christoph Koch is a remarkable tour de force exploration of the combination of both parametric...
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Multi-Objective Parametric Query Optimization
We propose a generalization of the classical database query optimization problem: multi-objective parametric query (MPQ) optimization.
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Technical Perspective: Unexpected Connections
The inherent scalability of an interface is the focus of "The Scalable Commutativity Rule" by Austin T. Clements, et al.
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The Scalable Commutativity Rule: Designing Scalable Software For Multicore Processors
This paper introduces an interface-driven approach to building scalable software.
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Technical Perspective: Ironfleet Simplifies Proving Safety and Liveness Properties
"IronFleet: Proving Safety and Liveness of Practical Distributed Systems," by Chris Hawblitzel, et al., describes mechanically checked proofs for two non-trivial...
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Ironfleet: Proving Safety and Liveness of Practical Distributed Systems
We demonstrate the methodology on a complex implementation of a Paxos-based replicated state machine library and a lease-based sharded key-value store. With our...
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Technical Perspective: What Led Computer Vision to Deep Learning?
We are in the middle of the third wave of interest in artificial neural networks as the leading paradigm for machine learning. "ImageNet Classification with Deep...
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ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
In the 1980s backpropagation did not live up to the very high expectations of its advocates. Twenty years later, we know what went wrong: for deep neural networks...
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Technical Perspective: Building Knowledge Bases from Messy Data
"DeepDive: Declarative Knowledge Base Construction" is a prime example of groundbreaking work in the area of Knowledge Base Construction.
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DeepDive: Declarative Knowledge Base Construction
We describe DeepDive, a system that combines database and machine learning ideas to help to develop knowledge base construction systems.
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Technical Perspective: Functional Compilers
"Exploiting Vector Instructions with Generalized Stream Fusion" points out that stream fusion by itself is not well suited for generating bulk instructions such...
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Exploiting Vector Instructions with Generalized Stream Fusion
Programmers should not have to sacrifice code clarity or good software engineering practices to obtain performance. This work shows how to attain this goal for...
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Technical Perspective: Proving File Systems Meet Expectations
"Certifying a File System Using Crash Hoare Logic: Correctness in the Presence of Crashes" presents a big step toward real-world file systems that are crash-safe...
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Certifying a File System Using Crash Hoare Logic: Correctness in the Presence of Crashes
This paper introduces Crash Hoare logic, which extends traditional Hoare logic with a crash condition, a recovery procedure, and logical address spaces for specifying...
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