User applications that move a lot of data across the user-kernel boundary suffer from a serious performance penalty. We provide a framework, Compound System Calls (CoSy), to enhan...
Amit Purohit, Charles P. Wright, Joseph Spadavecch...
In this paper, we present a system we have developed for automatic TV News video indexing that successfully combines results from the fields of speaker verification, acoustic anal...
The ad-hoc use of unions to encode disjoint sum types in C programs and the inability of C’s type system to check the safe use of these unions is a long standing source of subtle...
Abstract. Designing and programming dependable distributed applications is very difficult. Databases provide features like transactions and replication that can help in the impleme...
This paper explains how the high-level treatment of datatypes in functional languages--using features like constructor functions and pattern matching--can be made to coexist with ...