How to Stop Worrying about Multiple-Choice Questions

Ontotherapy, or how to stop worrying about what there is

The paper argues that Guarino is right that ontologies are different from thesauri and similar objects, but not in the ways he believes: they are distinguished from essentially linguistic objects like thesauri and hierarchies of conceptual relations because they unpack, ultimately, in terms of sets of objects and individuals. However this is a lonely status, and without much application outside...

Zornian Functional Analysis or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Axiom of Choice

Procrastinate: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Email and Love Procrastinating

Throughout the course of a typical day, users send and receive a large number of emails. These emails are not created equal however, some can be dealt with immediately, while others cannot be completed in a single session. Existing email tools are well suited for the most common types of tasks, however, there is poor support for assisting in other types of email tasks. For example, emails that ...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Plugins

This position paper argues that browsers should be responsible for specifying and enforcing security policies for browser plugins. By enabling the browser to make security decisions on behalf of the plugin, browsers can significantly reduce the impact of plugin vulnerabilities and eliminate much of the risk posed by today’s plugin exploits. We propose policies for document access, persistent st...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Flash Endurance

Flash memory in Solid-State Disks (SSDs) has gained tremendous popularity in recent years. The performance and power benefits of SSDs are especially attractive for use in data centers, whose workloads are I/O intensive. However, the apparent limited write-endurance of flash memory has posed an impediment to the wide deployment of SSDs in data centers. Prior architecture and system level studies...