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WWW
2003
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A Light-weight, Temporary File System for Large-scale Web Servers
Several recent studies have pointed out that file I/Os can be a major performance bottleneck for some large Web servers. Large I/O buffer caches often do not work effectively for ...
Dong Li, Jun Wang
SIGMOD
1989
ACM
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15 years 1 months ago
User Interfaces
Todays computer interfaces are one-size-fits-all. Users with little programming experience have very limited opportunities to customize an interface to their task and work habits...
L. Anderson
IAT
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Comparing Tag Clouds, Term Histograms, and Term Lists for Enhancing Personalized Web Search
Although static ranked lists remain the dominant Web search interface, they can limit the ability of Web searchers to find desired information when it is buried deep in the collect...
Orland Hoeber, Hanze Liu
CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
The tilt cursor: enhancing stimulus-response compatibility by providing 3d orientation cue of pen
In order to improve stimulus-response compatibility of touchpad in pen-based user interface, we present the tilt cursor, i.e. a cursor dynamically reshapes itself to providing the...
Feng Tian, Xiang Ao, Hongan Wang, Vidya Setlur, Gu...
USENIX
2008
15 years 4 days ago
Perspectives:  Improving SSH-style Host Authentication with Multi-Path Probing
The popularity of "Trust-on-first-use" (Tofu) authentication, used by SSH and HTTPS with self-signed certificates, demonstrates significant demand for host authenticatio...
Dan Wendlandt, David G. Andersen, Adrian Perrig