Distributed Computing, the exploitation of idle cycles on pervasive desktop PC systems offers the opportunity to increase the available computing power by orders of magnitude (10x...
Ubiquitous computing is poised to revolutionize the way we compute and interact with each other. However, unless privacy concerns are taken into account early in the design proces...
Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy H. Campbell, Apu Kapadia, M....
Sort can be speeded up on parallel computers by dividing and computing data individually in parallel. Merge sort can be parallelized, however, the conventional algorithm implement...
Future high-end computers will offer great performance improvements over today’s machines, enabling applications of far greater complexity. However, designers must solve the cha...
Guang R. Gao, Kevin B. Theobald, Ziang Hu, Haiping...
The representation of physical space has traditionally focused on keyphrases such as “Computer Science Building” or “Physics Department” that help us in describing and nav...