The paper Optimizing Every Operation in a Write-optimized File System, won the Best Paper award at the 2016 File and Storage Technologies conference (FAST '16). The paper is by Jun Yuan, Yang...
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Fri, 11/22/2013
Don Dailey, chess-programming whiz and author of the Supertech programs *Socrates and Cilkchess, as well as of the more recent program "Komodo", died of leukemia at age 57 on November 22, 2013. He was a talented programmer, a...
Wed, 08/10/2011
What began as lecture notes for an MIT computer-science class has become the standard text in the field, selling half a million copies in 20 years.
Fri, 02/25/2011
Charles E. Leiserson and his team are experts at designing parallel algorithms - including one for a chess-playing program that outperformed IBM's Deep Blue.