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SIGMOD
2007
ACM
156views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
15 years 12 months ago
JouleSort: a balanced energy-efficiency benchmark
The energy efficiency of computer systems is an important concern in a variety of contexts. In data centers, reducing energy use improves operating cost, scalability, reliability,...
Suzanne Rivoire, Mehul A. Shah, Parthasarathy Rang...
HPCA
1998
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Speculative Versioning Cache
Dependences among loads and stores whose addresses are unknown hinder the extraction of instruction level parallelism during the execution of a sequential program. Such ambiguous ...
Sridhar Gopal, T. N. Vijaykumar, James E. Smith, G...
IHI
2010
133views Healthcare» more  IHI 2010»
14 years 6 months ago
Heuristic evaluation of persuasive health technologies
Persuasive technologies for promoting physical fitness, good nutrition, and other healthy behaviors have been growing in popularity. Despite their appeal, the evaluation of these ...
Julie A. Kientz, Eun Kyoung Choe, Brennen Birch, R...
CVPR
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Discriminant Additive Tangent Spaces for Object Recognition
Pattern variation is a major factor that affects the performance of recognition systems. In this paper, a novel manifold tangent modeling method called Discriminant Additive Tange...
Liang Xiong, Jianguo Li, Changshui Zhang
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 2 days ago
Biasing response in Fitts' Law tasks
Fitts' law, relating the time to acquire a target to the target size and the distance from the target, is an effective and widely used predictor of performance in feedback co...
Emory Al-Imam, Edward Lank