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PRDC
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Caveat Emptor: Making Grid Services Dependable from the Client Side
Grid computing relies on fragile partnerships. Clients with hundreds or even thousands of pending service requests must seek out and form temporary alliances with remote servers e...
Miron Livny, Douglas Thain
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Verbosity: a game for collecting common-sense facts
We address the problem of collecting a database of "common-sense facts" using a computer game. Informally, a common-sense fact is a true statement about the world that i...
Luis von Ahn, Mihir Kedia, Manuel Blum
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Using image processing projects to teach CS1 topics
As Computer Science educators, we know that students learn more from projects that are fun and challenging, that seem “real” to them, and that allow them to be creative in des...
Richard Wicentowski, Tia Newhall
FOSSACS
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
History-Based Access Control with Local Policies
Abstract. An extension of the λ-calculus is proposed, to study historybased access control. It allows for security policies with a possibly nested, local scope. We define a type ...
Massimo Bartoletti, Pierpaolo Degano, Gian Luigi F...
CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Privacy-preserving genomic computation through program specialization
In this paper, we present a new approach to performing important classes of genomic computations (e.g., search for homologous genes) that makes a significant step towards privacy...
Rui Wang, XiaoFeng Wang, Zhou Li, Haixu Tang, Mich...