We conducted an ethnographic study to investigate the use of generic vs. task-specific application software by people who create and maintain presentation slides. Sixteen people w...
as a tree which specifies the presentation in an abstract, machineindependent way. This specification is created and edited using an authoring system; it is mapped to a particula...
Guido van Rossum, Jack Jansen, K. Sjoerd Mullender...
Modern computer architectures increasingly depend on mechanisms that estimate future control flow decisions to increase performance. Mechanisms such as speculative execution and p...
The current Internet is based on a stateless (datagram) architecture. However, many recent proposals rely on the maintenance of state information within network routers, leading t...
Collection-oriented languages provide high-level constructs for describing computations over collections. These languages are becoming increasingly popular with the advent of massi...