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OSDI
1996
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Microkernels Meet Recursive Virtual Machines
This paper describes a novel approach to providingmodular and extensible operating system functionality and encapsulated environments based on a synthesis of microkernel and virtu...
Bryan Ford, Mike Hibler, Jay Lepreau, Patrick Tull...
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
The Physical World as a Virtual Reality
This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the ph...
Brian Whitworth
ECRA
2002
180views more  ECRA 2002»
15 years 6 months ago
vCOM: Electronic commerce in a collaborative virtual world
Existing e-commerce applications on the web provide the users a relatively simple, browser-based interface to access available products. Customers are not provided with the same s...
Xiaojun Shen, T. Radakrishnan, Nicolas D. Georgana...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
297views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
17 years 5 months ago
Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads
Virtual machine monitors are becoming popular tools for the deployment of database management systems and other enterprise software applications. In this paper, we consider a commo...
Ahmed A. Soror, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, P...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Human-Currency Interaction: learning from virtual currency use in China
What happens when the domains of HCI design and money intersect? This paper presents analyses from an ethnographic study of virtual currency use in China to discuss implications f...
Scott D. Mainwaring, Yang Wang 0005