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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 2 days ago
Getting inspired!: understanding how and why examples are used in creative design practice
The use of examples serves a critical role in creative design practice, but details of this process remain an enigma. This is problematic for both the understanding of design acti...
Scarlett R. Herring, Chia-Chen Chang, Jesse Krantz...
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FOSSACS
2001
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
On Garbage and Program Logic
Garbage collection relieves the programmer of the burden of managing dynamically allocated memory, by providing an automatic way to reclaim unneeded storage. This eliminates or les...
Cristiano Calcagno, Peter W. O'Hearn
ICFP
1999
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Atomic Heap Transactions and Fine-grain Interrupts
Languages such as Java, ML, Scheme, and Haskell provide automatic storage management, that is, garbage collection. The two fundamental operations performed on a garbagecollected h...
Olin Shivers, James W. Clark, Roland McGrath
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CIKM
1999
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of Alternative Continuous Display Techniques with Heterogeneous Multi-Zone Disks
A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as continuous media audio and video servers a reality. These servers are expected to play an i...
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Seon Ho Kim
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POS
1998
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Optimizing the Read and Write Barriers for Orthogonal Persistence
Persistent programming languages manage volatile memory as a cache for stable storage, imposing a read barrier on operations that access the cache, and a write barrier on updates ...
Antony L. Hosking, Nathaniel Nystrom, Quintin I. C...