Wanted: Outstanding Ideas for Improving World Order

WANTED: a theft-deterrent solution for the pervasive computing world

This paper presents a new theft-deterrent system called WANTED1. The system relies on credits and blacklists, with each protected device periodically requesting new credit in order to continue operating. The main features of WANTED are resistance to attacks, guaranteed privacy, and scalability. The client part is a hybrid system consisting of an untrusted software component and a trusted hardwa...

Ideas for improving the preop process.

Improving our patients' experience: ideas for change

addition to keeping an eye on the quality of our clinical services, making small changes in how we deliver services can have a big impact on how patients feel about their experience – which will in turn motivate them and others to come for the eye care they need. Here are a few things to you may be able to try. Look after your staff Patients want us to listen to them. They want to be treated wi...

Indic Ideas in the Graeco-Roman World

It is common to speak of “civilizational ideas”, but do they exist? For example, are the dośas of Āyurveda peculiarly Indian since they are a tripartite classification that is basic to the Vedic system of knowledge? Plato introduced a similar system based on three humours into Greek medicine, with a central role to the idea of breath (pneuma in Greek). But this centrality of breath (prān. a in ...

Some Ideas on Improving Compilation Techniques for Reducing Power Consumption

For a portable digital device, power consumption is crucial under the constraint of limited battery life. Switching activity in CMOS circuits contributes to a significant amount of power consumption. Efforts are made in every design level to help hardware reduce the switching activity required to execute the program. In this paper, we study the problem of reducing power consumption arising from...