The efforts of anti-spammers and spammers has often been described as an arms race. As we devise new ways to stem the flood of bulk mail, spammers respond by working their way ar...
These notes have the status of letters written to ourselves: we wrote them down because, without doing so, we found ourselves making rguments over and over again. So began the abs...
As CPUs become more powerful with Moore’s law and memory latencies stay constant, the impact of the memory access performance bottleneck continues to grow on relational operator...
We present a novel family of data-driven linear transformations, aimed at visualizing multivariate data in a low-dimensional space in a way that optimally preserves the structure ...
We discuss how a collection of domain-specific and domain-independent tools can be combined to “aspectize” the distributed character of server-side applications, to a much gr...
Eli Tilevich, Stephan Urbanski, Yannis Smaragdakis...