The authors look at online tip exchanges as parts of gift economies created by the players and designers of console and online role-playing games in Taiwan. A group of experienced...
Nanoelectronic devices are expected to have extremely high and variable fault rates; thus future processor architectures based on these unreliable devices need to be built with fa...
Hydra is a chip multiprocessor (CMP) with integrated support for thread-level speculation. Thread-level speculation provides a way to parallelize sequential programs without the n...
Microprocessor trends are moving towards wider architectures and more aggressive speculation. With the increasing transistor budgets, energy consumption has become a critical desi...
The advent of multicores has introduced new challenges for programmers to provide increased performance and software reliability. There has been significant interest in technique...