Information workers often have to balance many tasks and interruptions. In this work, we explore peripheral display techniques that improve multitasking efficiency by helping user...
Tara Matthews, Mary Czerwinski, George G. Robertso...
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
Snowbird is a middleware system based on virtual machine (VM) technology that simplifies the development and deployment of bimodal applications. Such applications alternate betwee...
Digital multimedia has gained popularity due to the huge success of the Internet. Users acquire and disseminate multimedia information using different types of devices and communi...
Distributed computing middleware needs to support a wide range of resources, such as diverse software components, various hardware devices, and heterogeneous operating systems and...
Han Gao, Ivan R. Judson, Thomas D. Uram, Terry Dis...