An extended abstract of this paper appeared in Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGACT-SIGMODSIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems [1]. 2 E-mail: pankaÄcs.duke.edu; httpÂ...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Lars Arge, Jeff Erickson, Paolo...
We are developing Virtuoso, a system for distributed computing using virtual machines (VMs). Virtuoso must be able to mix batch and interactive VMs on the same physical hardware, ...
We address one of the foundational problems in cryptography: the bias of coin-flipping protocols. Coin-flipping protocols allow mutually distrustful parties to generate a common u...
In STOC’05, Ahn, Hopper and Langford introduced the notion of covert computation. A covert computation protocol is one in which parties can run a protocol without knowing if oth...
We explore foundational typing support for strong updates — updating a memory cell to hold values of unrelated types at different points in time. We present a simple, but expres...