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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
130views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
FlashLogging: exploiting flash devices for synchronous logging performance
Synchronous transactional logging is the central mechanism for ensuring data persistency and recoverability in database systems. Unfortunately, magnetic disks are ill-suited for t...
Shimin Chen
HICSS
2002
IEEE
73views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
14 years 13 days ago
Informed Consent in the Mozilla Browser: Implementing Value Sensitive Design
This paper reports on one of the first efforts to apply Value-Sensitive Design (VSD) to a large-scale real-world software system. We sought to improve informed consent in Web-base...
Batya Friedman, Daniel C. Howe, Edward W. Felten
UIST
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Enhanced area cursors: reducing fine pointing demands for people with motor impairments
Computer users with motor impairments face major challenges with conventional mouse pointing. These challenges are mostly due to fine pointing corrections at the final stages of t...
Leah Findlater, Alex Jansen, Kristen Shinohara, Mo...
JCDL
2005
ACM
130views Education» more  JCDL 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Leveraging context to resolve identity in photo albums
Our system suggests likely identity labels for photographs in a personal photo collection. Instead of using face recognition techniques, the system leverages automatically availab...
Mor Naaman, Ron B. Yeh, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andr...
IHI
2010
169views Healthcare» more  IHI 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Dynamic scheduling of emergency department resources
The processes carried out in a hospital emergency department can be thought of as structures of activities that require resources in order to execute. Costs are reduced when resou...
Junchao Xiao, Leon J. Osterweil, Qing Wang