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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
What's your idea?: a case study of a grassroots innovation pipeline within a large software company
Establishing a grassroots innovation pipeline has come to the fore as strategy for nurturing innovation within large organizations. A key element of such pipelines is the use of a...
Brian P. Bailey, Eric Horvitz
JSS
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
The Linux kernel as a case study in software evolution
We use 810 versions of the Linux kernel, released over a period of 14 years, to characterize the system’s evolution, using Lehman’s laws of software evolution as a basis. We i...
Ayelet Israeli, Dror G. Feitelson
ISCA
1994
IEEE
129views Hardware» more  ISCA 1994»
14 years 1 months ago
Software Versus Hardware Shared-Memory Implementation: A Case Study
We comparethe performance of software-supported shared memory on a general-purpose network to hardware-supported shared memory on a dedicated interconnect. Up to eight processors,...
Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, ...
HICSS
2007
IEEE
159views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Patch Review Processes in Open Source Software Development Communities: A Comparative Case Study
In spite of the overwhelming success of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) like Apache and GNU/Linux, there is a limited understanding of the processes and methodologies that speci...
Jai Asundi, Rajiv Jayant
USENIX
2000
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Availability Benchmarks: A Case Study of Software RAID Systems
Benchmarks have historically played a key role in guiding the progress of computer science systems research and development, but have traditionally neglected the areas of availabi...
Aaron B. Brown, David A. Patterson