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ASPLOS
2011
ACM
12 years 9 months ago
NV-Heaps: making persistent objects fast and safe with next-generation, non-volatile memories
nt, user-defined objects present an attractive abstraction for working with non-volatile program state. However, the slow speed of persistent storage (i.e., disk) has restricted ...
Joel Coburn, Adrian M. Caulfield, Ameen Akel, Laur...
PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Language-independent sandboxing of just-in-time compilation and self-modifying code
When dealing with dynamic, untrusted content, such as on the Web, software behavior must be sandboxed, typically through use of a language like JavaScript. However, even for such ...
Jason Ansel, Petr Marchenko, Úlfar Erlingss...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Compare&contrast: using the web to discover comparable cases for news stories
Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...
Jiahui Liu, Earl Wagner, Larry Birnbaum
USS
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Digital Objects as Passwords
Security proponents heavily emphasize the importance of choosing a strong password (one with high entropy). Unfortunately, by design, most humans are apparently incapable of gener...
Mohammad Mannan, Paul C. van Oorschot
EMNLP
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling Annotators: A Generative Approach to Learning from Annotator Rationales
A human annotator can provide hints to a machine learner by highlighting contextual "rationales" for each of his or her annotations (Zaidan et al., 2007). How can one ex...
Omar Zaidan, Jason Eisner