by Jignesh Patel on Apr 26, 2017 | Tags: Databases, Shared-Nothing, Specialization
I’m not sure if I should be writing a blog for architects. As some of you know, my expertise is in database systems. In response to this blog, I’m likely to get flames from some of you informing me about how I have missed the boat in my observations. If that happens,...
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by T. N. Vijaykumar on Apr 17, 2017 | Tags: Conference
There are many significant issues with our review process which has both false-accepts (when papers that should be rejected are accepted) and false-rejects (when papers that should be accepted are rejected). I am not talking about borderline cases that require nuanced...
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by Paul V. Gratz on Apr 13, 2017 | Tags: Conference
This year’s 22nd ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS’17) has just concluded. ASPLOS’17 represents a milestone across several axes for the community. This year’s...
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by Keshav Pingali on Apr 6, 2017 | Tags: Machine Learning, Systems, Vision
In 1960, the physicist Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences” in which he explored the question of why mathematics is so remarkably useful in the natural sciences. A contemporary example of...
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