: In December of 2010, the new game CityVille achieved 6 million daily active users in just 8 days. Clearly the success of CityVille owes something to the fun gameplay experience i...
K42 is one of the few recent research projects that is examining operating system design structure issues in the context of new whole-system design. K42 is open source and was des...
Orran Krieger, Marc A. Auslander, Bryan S. Rosenbu...
This paper describes a new tool for introducing computer graphics and multimedia applications into first year, called QuickDraw, and our experience using it. QuickDraw provides an...
It has been widely advocated that software architecture an effective set of abstractions for engineering (families of) complex software systems. However, architectural concepts ar...
Sam Malek, Chiyoung Seo, Sharmila Ravula, Brad Pet...
Compilers employ many aggressive code transformations to achieve highly optimized code. However, because of complex target architectures and unpredictable optimization interaction...