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Driving advances in hardware, devices, and cyber-physical systems that expand the possibilities of computing.
Increasingly, educational games have become an established part of the instructional landscape, however designing a compelling and effective instructional game remains a challenge. One of the reasons for this challenge is that game players are…
Estimation of Shannon and Renyi entropies of unknown discrete distributions is a fundamental problem in classical statistical property testing that has been intensively studied by the communities of both theoretical computer science and information theory.…
Each file contains data from one of 21 volunteers who carried a GPS logger with them in the region of Seattle, Washington USA for approximately eight weeks in the fall of 2009. This set of…
Society has become so dependent on computing power that any inefficiencies in the way that we process information can considerably impede productivity and quality of life. Three emerging trends pose challenges to the design of…
Database engines must utilize and adapt to the underlying hardware. New hardware such as non-volatile memory (NVM) and massively parallel processors, is changing fundamentally how database engines should be designed for better scalability, performance, and…
