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SIGMOD
2011
ACM
201views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
14 years 7 months ago
Apache hadoop goes realtime at Facebook
Facebook recently deployed Facebook Messages, its first ever user-facing application built on the Apache Hadoop platform. Apache HBase is a database-like layer built on Hadoop des...
Dhruba Borthakur, Jonathan Gray, Joydeep Sen Sarma...
CHI
2003
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
With similar visual angles, larger displays improve spatial performance
Large wall-sized displays are becoming prevalent. Although researchers have articulated qualitative benefits of group work on large displays, little work has been done to quantify...
Desney S. Tan, Darren Gergle, Peter Scupelli, Rand...
MOBICOM
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Broadcast reception rates and effects of priority access in 802.11-based vehicular ad-hoc networks
One key usage of VANET is to support vehicle safety applications. This use case is characterized by the prominence of broadcasts in scaled settings. In this context, we try to ans...
Marc Torrent-Moreno, Daniel Jiang, Hannes Hartenst...
ISCA
2010
IEEE
163views Hardware» more  ISCA 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
WiDGET: Wisconsin decoupled grid execution tiles
The recent paradigm shift to multi-core systems results in high system throughput within a specified power budget. However, future systems still require good single thread perfor...
Yasuko Watanabe, John D. Davis, David A. Wood
ICRA
2008
IEEE
182views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 10 months ago
A body joint improves vertical to horizontal transitions of a wall-climbing robot
— Several recently-designed robots are able to scale steep surfaces using animal-inspired strategies for foot attachment and leg kinematics. These designs could be valuable for r...
Kathryn A. Daltorio, Timothy C. Witushynsky, Grego...