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CG
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Parallel Monte-Carlo Tree Search
Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a new best-first search method that started a revolution in the field of Computer Go. Parallelizing MCTS is an important way to increase the stren...
Guillaume Chaslot, Mark H. M. Winands, H. Jaap van...
INTERNET
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Live Distributed Objects: Enabling the Active Web
Distributed computing has been slow to benefit from the productivity revolution that has transformed the desktop. We still treat the Web as a separate technology space: programmer...
Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
"Narrowcast yourself": designing for community storytelling in a rural Indian context
The StoryBank project is examining technologies and practices to allow digitally impoverished communities to take part in the user-generated content revolution. The approach invol...
Matt Jones, Will Harwood, David Bainbridge, George...
OSDI
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Gadara: Dynamic Deadlock Avoidance for Multithreaded Programs
Deadlock is an increasingly pressing concern as the multicore revolution forces parallel programming upon the average programmer. Existing approaches to deadlock impose onerous bu...
Manjunath Kudlur, Scott A. Mahlke, Stéphane...
IROS
2006
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Waalbot: An Agile Small-Scale Wall Climbing Robot Utilizing Pressure Sensitive Adhesives
Abstract— This paper proposes a small-scale agile wall climbing robot able to navigate on smooth surfaces of any orientation, including vertical and inverted surfaces, which uses...
Michael P. Murphy, William Tso, Michael Tanzini, M...