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2003
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Semantically-Smart Disk Systems
We propose and evaluate the concept of a semantically-smart disk system (SDS). As opposed to a traditional “smart” disk, an SDS has detailed knowledge of how the file system ...
Muthian Sivathanu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Florentina...
ECCC
2006
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Hardness of Directed Routing with Congestion
Given a graph G and a collection of source-sink pairs in G, what is the least integer c such that each source can be connected by a path to its sink, with at most c paths going th...
Julia Chuzhoy, Sanjeev Khanna
BC
2002
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Spike-timing-dependent plasticity: common themes and divergent vistas
Abstract. Recent experimental observations of spiketiming-dependent synaptic plasticity (STDP) have revitalized the study of synaptic learning rules. The most surprising aspect of ...
Ádám Kepecs, Mark C. W. van Rossum, ...
SOFTWARE
1998
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Interrupts: Just a Minute Never Is
development is a highly abstract process that requires intense concentration. The authors show that interrupting this process can significantly reduce a developer’s efficiency an...
Rini van Solingen, Egon Berghout, Frank van Latum
SPE
1998
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Timing Trials, or the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages
This paper describes some basic experiments to see how fast various popular scripting and user-interface languages run on a spectrum of representative tasks. We found enormous var...
Brian W. Kernighan, Christopher J. Van Wyk