To improve the performance of transactional memory (TM), researchers have found many eager and lazy optimizations for conflict detection, the process of determining if transaction...
Electronic conversations often seem less polite than spoken conversations. The usual explanation for this is that people who are not physically copresent become depersonalized and...
Prior to 1994, student registration at Newcastle University involved students being registered in a single place, where they would present a form which had previously been filled ...
Mark C. Little, Stuart M. Wheater, David B. Ingham...
This paper discusses our implementation and experience with a camera-based whiteboard scanner. The ZombieBoard system (so called because it brings to electronic life the marks on a...
The use of smart cards to run software modules on demand has become a major business concern for application issuers. Such downloadable executable content requires to be trusted by...