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WWW
2011
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Design and implementation of contextual information portals
This paper presents a system for enabling offline web use to satisfy the information needs of disconnected communities. We describe the design, implementation, evaluation, and pil...
Jay Chen, Russell Power, Lakshminarayanan Subraman...
ISCA
2011
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling
Since 2005, processor designers have increased core counts to exploit Moore’s Law scaling, rather than focusing on single-core performance. The failure of Dennard scaling, to wh...
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Emily R. Blem, Renée St....
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Pocket cloudlets
Cloud services accessed through mobile devices suffer from high network access latencies and are constrained by energy budgets dictated by the devices’ batteries. Radio and batt...
Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Ka...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Towards a design model for women's empowerment in the developing world
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof argues that “in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.” In th...
Geeta Shroff, Matthew Kam
ESWS
2011
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
DataFinland - A Semantic Portal for Open and Linked Datasets
The number of open datasets available on the web is increasing rapidly with the rise of the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud and various governmental efforts for releasing public data ...
Matias Frosterus, Eero Hyvönen, Joonas Laitio