Falls are one of the major risks for seniors living alone at home. Computer vision systems, which do not require to wear sensors, offer a new and promising solution for fall detec...
Tracing garbage collectors traverse references from live program variables, transitively tracing out the closure of live objects. Memory accesses incurred during tracing are essen...
Chen-Yong Cher, Antony L. Hosking, T. N. Vijaykuma...
The past 10 years have delivered two significant revolutions. (1) Microprocessor design has been transformed by the limits of chip power, wire latency, and Dennard scaling—leadi...
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Ting Cao, Xi Yang, Stephen Blac...
Knuth’s buddy system is an attractive algorithm for managing storage allocation, and it can be made to operate in real-time. At some point, storage-management systems must eithe...
Approximate Linear Programming (ALP) is a reinforcement learning technique with nice theoretical properties, but it often performs poorly in practice. We identify some reasons for...