Consider your vote

Your conscience and your vote.

Exercise your right to vote!

The Saint Mary’s Board o f Gover­ nance last night discussed the possi­ b ility o f p rov id ing students w ith course evaluation booklets sim iliar to those sponsored by Notre Dame’s student government. Julie Strazzabosco, vice president for academic affairs, said the board’s interest in such a plan stems from a survey by the Student Academic Council to question the present means o f course ev...

Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance Voting

In traditional models, votes are an expression of preferences and beliefs. Psychological theories of cognitive dissonance suggest, however, that behavior may shape preferences. In this view, the very act of voting may influence political attitudes. A vote for a candidate may lead to more favorable interpretations of his actions in the future. We test the empirical relevance of cognitive dissona...

Vote the OS off your Core

Recent trends in OS research have shown evidence that there are performance benefits to running OS services on different cores than the user applications that rely on them. We quantitatively evaluate this claim in terms of one of the most significant architectural constraints: memory performance. To this end, we have created CachEMU, an open-source memory trace generator and cache simulator bui...

Make Your Vote Count In 2008

counted in 2008 on electronic voting machines made and serviced by two companies – Diebold and ES&S. According to the excellent article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that follows this page, “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?,” those two companies have close ties to the Republican Party. The Chairman and CEO of Diebold in 2004 was a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was “...