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POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Masked types for sound object initialization
This paper presents a type-based solution to the long-standing problem of object initialization. Constructors, the conventional mechanism for object initialization, have semantics...
Xin Qi, Andrew C. Myers
STOC
2009
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Non-malleable extractors and symmetric key cryptography from weak secrets
We study the question of basing symmetric key cryptography on weak secrets. In this setting, Alice and Bob share an n-bit secret W, which might not be uniformly random, but the ad...
Yevgeniy Dodis, Daniel Wichs
RECOMB
2009
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Learning Models for Aligning Protein Sequences with Predicted Secondary Structure
Accurately aligning distant protein sequences is notoriously difficult. A recent approach to improving alignment accuracy is to use additional information such as predicted seconda...
Eagu Kim, Travis J. Wheeler, John D. Kececioglu
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites
Social networking sites (SNS) are only as good as the content their users share. Therefore, designers of SNS seek to improve the overall user experience by encouraging members to ...
Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow, Thomas M. Lento
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Bounding the locality of distributed routing algorithms
d Abstract] Prosenjit Bose School of Computer Science Carleton University Ottawa, Canada jit@scs.carleton.ca Paz Carmi Dept. of Computer Science Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev Beer-...
Prosenjit Bose, Paz Carmi, Stephane Durocher