Malicious programs spy on users’ behavior and compromise their privacy. Even software from reputable vendors, such as Google Desktop and Sony DRM media player, may perform undes...
Heng Yin, Dawn Xiaodong Song, Manuel Egele, Christ...
Chip multiprocessors with multiple simpler cores are gaining popularity because they have the potential to drive future performance gains without exacerbating the problems of powe...
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Desktop environments have proven to be a powerful user interface and are used as the de facto standard human-computer interaction paradigm for over 40 years. However, there is a ri...
Frank Steinicke, Timo Ropinski, Gerd Bruder, Klaus...
As parallel jobs get bigger in size and finer in granularity, “system noise” is increasingly becoming a problem. In fact, fine-grained jobs on clusters with thousands of SMP...
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Media sharing over mobile devices is quickly becoming a common practice, used to support a variety of social processes. Most existing systems employ a model of sharing that treats...