An awareness system was designed to provide peace of mind and a sense of connectedness to adults who care for an elderly parent living alone. The iterative design of the Aurama awa...
Pavan Dadlani, Panos Markopoulos, Alexander Sinits...
This paper presents a list-decoding algorithm for classical irreducible binary Goppa codes. The algorithm corrects, in polynomial time, approximately n − p n(n − 2t − 2) err...
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (“MTurk”) service allows users to post short tasks (“HITs”) that other users can receive a small amount of money for completing. Common tasks on...
Adam Marcus 0002, Eugene Wu 0002, Samuel Madden, R...
One of the key tenets of database system design is making efficient use of storage and memory resources. However, existing database system implementations are actually extremely ...
End-to-end data processing environments are often comprised of several independently-developed (sub-)systems, e.g. for engineering, organizational or historical reasons. Unfortuna...
The Deuteronomy system supports efficient and scalable ACID transactions in the cloud by decomposing functions of a database storage engine kernel into: (a) a transactional compon...
Justin J. Levandoski, David B. Lomet, Mohamed F. M...
For some problems, human assistance is needed in addition to automated (algorithmic) computation. In sharp contrast to existing data management approaches, where human input is ei...
Megastore is a storage system developed to meet the requirements of today’s interactive online services. Megastore blends the scalability of a NoSQL datastore with the convenien...
Jason Baker, Chris Bond, James Corbett, J. J. Furm...