We discuss current approaches to the development of natural language dialogue systems, and claim that they do not sufficiently consider the unique qualities of man-machine intera...
Abstract—Transactional memory promises to generalize transactional programming to mainstream languages and data structures. The purported benefit of transactions is that they ar...
Abstract--On NVIDIA's many-core GPUs, there is no synchronization function among parallel thread blocks. When finegranularity of data communication and synchronization is requ...
Jianmin Chen, Zhuo Huang, Feiqi Su, Jih-Kwon Peir,...
In this paper, we study the question of whether or not it is possible to construct protocols for general secure computation in the setting of malicious adversaries and no honest m...
Ensuring the correctness of multithreaded programs is difficult, due to the potential for unexpected interactions between concurrent threads. Much previous work has focused on det...