We introduce external synchrony, a new model for local file I/O that provides the reliability and simplicity of synchronous I/O, yet also closely approximates the performance of a...
Edmund B. Nightingale, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Pete...
In a world where intelligence can be arguably measured by an animal’s ability to use tools, are we marking ourselves for natural selection? Software development tools are steadi...
—This paper presents a novel hybrid method for content based visual information retrieval (CBIR) that combines shape analysis of objects in image with their automatic indexing by...
SwiftFile is an intelligent assistant that helps users organize their e-mail into folders. SwiftFile uses a text classifier to predict where each new message is likely to be filed...
Locating files based on file system structure, file properties, and maybe even file contents is a core task of the user interface of operating systems. By adapting XPath's po...