Gene duplication is an important process in evolution. The availability of genome sequences of a number of organisms has made it possible to conduct comprehensive searches for dup...
The rise of ad-hoc data-intensive computing has led to the development of data-parallel programming systems such as Map/Reduce and Hadoop, which achieve scalability by tightly cou...
Innovative teachers are continually looking for creative ideas, both to get their ideas across and to hold the interest of their students. One of the latest trends is the use of L...
Data races are among the most reliable indicators of programming errors in concurrent software. For at least two decades, Lamport’s happens-before (HB) relation has served as th...
Yannis Smaragdakis, Jacob Evans, Caitlin Sadowski,...
Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...