We present a novel translation of systems that are tolerant of crash failures to systems that are tolerant of Byzantine failures in an asynchronous environment, making weaker assum...
Distributed decision making in networked systems depends critically on the timely availability of critical fresh information. Performance of networked systems, from the perspective...
1 As distributed systems scale up and are deployed into increasingly sensitive settings, demand is rising for a new generation of communications middleware in support of applicati...
Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudo...
Many peer-assisted content-distribution systems reward a peer based on the amount of data that this peer serves to others. However, validating that a peer did so is, to our knowled...
Michael K. Reiter, Vyas Sekar, Chad Spensky, Zheng...
We address the task of unsupervised topic segmentation of speech data operating over raw acoustic information. In contrast to existing algorithms for topic segmentation of speech,...
Igor Malioutov, Alex Park, Regina Barzilay, James ...