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Dynamic Memory Mapping Delivers Additional Flexibility To Virtual Resource Management
The Department of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China, has shown that a novel dynamic memory mapping (DMM) model brings about additional flexibility to virtual resource management, leading to the feature-adjustable design of a virtual machine monitor (VMM). The study is reported in Issue 53 (June, 2010) of SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences because of its ...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:24:10 -0700

Jason Hickey: Structured Programming for Reliable Systems
Dr. Jason Hickey, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Caltech, presented this lecture as part of the 0.1 Seminar series. He discusses the basic issues in programming language design, and why the design automation problem remains unsolved despite considerable progress in the past 50 years. He also takes a brief look at the history of programming languages, including C and Scheme, and ...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:41:20 -0700

Erik Winfree: Universality of Computation
Dr. Erik Winfree, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Caltech, presented this lecture as part of the 0.1 Seminar series. He talks about how the study of computation is among the most fundamental intellectual developments of the 20th century, and how it met with a number of dramatic surprises regarding the universality of computation, which created new connections throughout the sciences ...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:11:21 -0700

Computer scientists leverage dark silicon to improve smartphone battery life
A new smartphone chip prototype under development will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of "dark silicon" -- the underused transistors in modern microprocessors.

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:24:05 -0700

Crash of Va. computer network has implications for tech world, state politics
RICHMOND -- The data storage unit that failed in a warehouse outside of Richmond last week, wreaking havoc in the computer networks of a number of Virginia agencies for more than a week, is a ubiquitous bit of technology used by virtually every major company and government in the country. Politics - United States - Transportation - Aviation - Accidents

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:00:00 -0700