Small-form-factor, low-power wireless sensors—motes—are convenient to deploy, but lack the bandwidth to capture and transmit raw high-frequency data, such as human voices or n...
Ben Greenstein, Christopher Mar, Alex Pesterev, Sh...
Computation in the physical world is restricted by the following spatial locality constraint: In a single unit of time, information can only travel a bounded distance in space. A ...
Software systems are constantly changing. Patches to fix bugs and patches to add features are all too common. Every change risks breaking a previously working system. Hence admini...
Existing concurrency platforms for dynamic multithreading do not provide repeatable parallel random-number generators. This paper proposes that a mechanism called pedigrees be bui...
There are many application classes where the users are flexible with respect to the output quality. At the same time, there are other constraints, such as the need for real-time ...