Improving Antarctic infrastructure

Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

VeriSign, Inc. operates several of the world’s largest and most important DNS Registries (.com, .net, .gov, and more). Because of this operational role that we fulfill, we continually strive to foster and ensure the security and stability of the global Internet [10]. In this vein, we applaud the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) request for information: NIST Docket Numbe...

Improving Mobile Infrastructure for Pervasive Personal Computing

The emergence of pervasive computing systems such as Internet Suspend/ Resume has facilitated ubiquitous access to a user’s personalized computing environment by layering virtual machine technology on top of distributed storage. This usage model poses several new challenges, such as establishing trust in unmanaged hardware that a user may access, and efficiently migrating virtual machine (VM) s...

Improving Healthcare through Built Environment Infrastructure

Modeling and improving Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) development is widely known to be a challenging process owing to its complex and dynamic nature. Although great effort has been made to conceptually explain the complexity and dynamics of SDIs, few studies thus far have actually modeled these complexities. In fact, better modeling of SDI complexities will lead to more reliable plans for its development. A state...

Improving GNU Compiler Collection Infrastructure for Streamization

GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) needs a strategy to support future multicore architectures, which will probably include heterogeneous accelerator-like designs with explicit management of scratchpad memories. Some have further restrictions; for example, SIMD has limited synchronization capabilities. Some platforms will probably offer hardware support for streaming, transactions, and speculation. T...