Silicon-based electronics is the foundation of computing devices. The computer industry is reaching an important milestone, where physical limits arising from using optical lithogr...
Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for concurrent programming. This paper is an overview of our recent theoretical work on defining a theory of TM. We first recall s...
—It seems well understood that supercomputer simulation is an enabler for scientific discoveries, weapons, and other activities of value to society. It also seems widely believed...
We introduce a new payment architecture that limits the power of an attacker while providing the honest user with privacy. Our proposed method defends against all known attacks on ...
We propose an extension to list comprehensions that makes it easy to express the kind of queries one would write in SQL using ORDER BY, GROUP BY, and LIMIT. Our extension adds exp...