Ensuring the correctness of multithreaded programs is difficult, due to the potential for unexpected interactions between concurrent threads. Much previous work has focused on det...
Storage systems such as file systems, databases, and RAID systems have a simple, basic contract: you give them data, they do not lose or corrupt it. Often they store the only copy...
Uploading tourist photographs is a popular activity on photo sharing platforms. The manual annotation of these images is a tedious process and the users often upload their images ...
Designing computing equipment for a computer laboratory is not easy. In a class in a computer laboratory, it is not unusual that all students do the same thing simultaneously. Tre...
According to Computing Research Association, during each year between 2003 and 2007, fewer than 3% of the US’s Ph.D.s graduates in computer science and computer engineering were...