—Bare PC applications do not use an operating system or kernel. The bare PC architecture avoids buffer copying, minimizes interrupts, uses a single thread of execution for proces...
Long He, Ramesh K. Karne, Alexander L. Wijesinha, ...
Magnetic stripe cards are in common use for electronic payments and cash withdrawal. Reported incidents document that criminals easily pickpocket cards or skim them by swiping the...
We set out to examine whether current, DRM-based online offerings of music and movies accord with consumers’ current expectations regarding the personal use of copyrighted works...
Abstract. The Internet Archive for Electronic Music (IAEM) is intended to be a platform to access an extensive and distributed archive of electronic music. It combines collaborativ...
Communication delay is a key source of uncertainty in distributed systems. Existing approaches to reduce this uncertainty focus on maintaining sufficient surplus bandwidth; appli...