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CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
If not now, when?: the effects of interruption at different moments within task execution
User attention is a scarce resource, and users are susceptible to interruption overload. Systems do not reason about the effects of interrupting a user during a task sequence. In ...
Piotr D. Adamczyk, Brian P. Bailey
CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
IM here: public instant messaging on large, shared displays for workgroup interactions
Instant messaging (IM) in the workplace has proven to be a valuable tool for facilitating informal communication. Its benefits, however, are generally limited to times when users ...
Elaine M. Huang, Daniel M. Russell, Alison E. Sue
POPL
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
From sequential programs to multi-tier applications by program transformation
Modern applications are designed in multiple tiers to separate concerns. Since each tier may run at a separate location, middleware is required to mediate access between tiers. Ho...
Matthias Neubauer, Peter Thiemann
OSDI
2002
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Fine-Grained Network Time Synchronization Using Reference Broadcasts
Recent advances in miniaturization and low-cost, lowpower design have led to active research in large-scale networks of small, wireless, low-power sensors and actuators. Time sync...
Jeremy Elson, Lewis Girod, Deborah Estrin
OSDI
2002
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
The Effectiveness of Request Redirection on CDN Robustness
It is becoming increasingly common to construct network services using redundant resources geographically distributed across the Internet. Content Distribution Networks are a prim...
Limin Wang, Vivek S. Pai, Larry L. Peterson