GPS-enabled mobile devices are a quickly growing market and users are starting to share their location information with each other through services such as Google Latitude. Locati...
Information Extraction (IE) has existed as a field for several decades and has produced some impressive systems in the recent past. Despite its success, widespread usage and comm...
We design and implement FD-Buffer, a buffer manager for database systems running on flash-based disks. Unlike magnetic disks, flash media has an inherent read-write asymmetry: w...
Sai Tung On, Yinan Li, Bingsheng He, Ming Wu, Qion...
While there has been advances in observational equipment that generate huge high quality images, the processing of these images remains a major bottleneck. We show that provenance...
Johnson Mwebaze, John McFarland, Danny Booxhorn, E...
Flash devices have been widely used in embedded systems, laptop computers, and enterprise servers. However, the poor random writes have been an obstacle to running write-intensive...