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BetrFS wins Best Paper award at FAST ’16
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 Zhan,…
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Don Dailey Passes
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…
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Milestone for MIT Press’s bestseller
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.
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Retooling Algorithms
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.
Advancing computing T1/T∞ steps at a time