Despite the popularity of the subject, one surprising aspect of building automation (BA) is the
scarcity of authoritative literature references regarding the topic. This situation hampers …

The recent rise of byte-addressable non-volatile memory technologies is blurring the
dichotomy between memory and storage. In particular, they allow programmers to have …

The Rowhammer bug is a reliability issue in DRAM cells that can enable an unprivileged
adversary to flip the values of bits in neighboring rows on the memory module. Previous …

We design and develop ObliVM, a programming framework for secure computation. ObliVM
offers a domain specific language designed for compilation of programs into efficient …

Several system-level operations trigger bulk data copy or initialization. Even though these
bulk data operations do not require any computation, current systems transfer a large …

Android malware evolution has been neglected by the available data sets, thus providing a
static snapshot of a non-stationary phenomenon. The impact of the time variable has not had …

New hardware primitives such as Intel SGX secure a user-level process in presence of an
untrusted or compromised OS. Such" enclaved execution" systems are vulnerable to several …

The motives of 141 contributors to a large Open Source Software (OSS) project (the Linux
kernel) was explored with an Internet-based questionnaire study. Measured factors were …

Rapid growth of the demand for computational power has led to the creation of large-scale
data centers. They consume enormous amounts of electrical power resulting in high …

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective Page 1 Computer Systems A Programmer’s
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