A generation ago, while others used high level languages such as COBOL,FORTRAN, BASIC and Lisp, most embedded systems were programmed inassembler. Memories and applications were small and compilers ...

Basic principles behind distributed systems (collections of independent components that appear to users as a single coherent system) and main paradigms used to organize them. This course satisfies the ...

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Security researchers at Cyberbit Ltd. have uncovered a new way that hackers can hijack Windows installations using a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Component Object Model. The Microsoft COM is a ...

Journaling is a widely used technique to increase file system robustness against metadata and/or data corruptions. While the overhead of journaling can be masked by the page cache for small-scale, ...

In this study, we investigated the relationship between watershed characteristics and hydrology using high spatial resolution impervious surface area (ISA), hydrologic simulations and spatial ...