We describe the system design of “Smart Kindergarten”, a smart problem solving environment for early childhood education. Two crucial building blocks that make up Smart Kinder...
Sung Park, Ivo Locher, Andreas Savvides, Mani B. S...
As the threat of terrorism becomes more prevalent, the need for technological innovations for tighter security rises. Some of the areas where security needs to be increased are at...
Paul E. Dickson, James Li, Zhigang Zhu, Allen R. H...
In-memory data sharing for grids allow location-transparent access to data stored in volatile memory. Existing Grid middlewares typ- ically support only explicit data transfer betw...
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
This paper develops some control structures suitable for composing fault-tolerant distrib uted applications using atomic actions (atomic transactions) as building blocks, and then...