Memory transactions, similar to database transactions, allow a programmer to focus on the logic of their program and let the system ensure that transactions are atomic and isolate...
Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Neelam Goyal, Micha...
Multicore is now the dominant processor trend, and the number of cores is rapidly increasing. The paradigm shift to multicore forces the redesign of the software stack, which incl...
Since processor performance scalability will now mostly be achieved through thread-level parallelism, there is a strong incentive to parallelize a broad range of applications, inc...
There are significant barriers to academic research into user Web search preferences. Academic researchers are unable to manipulate the results shown by a major search engine to ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Ramesh S. Sankaranar...
— We consider the problem of finding the relevant named entities in response to a search query over a given text corpus. Entity search can readily be used to augment conventiona...