Where to File Your Patent Case

Where to send your paper ?

The publication culture in computer science favors publishing in conference proceedings or even the arXiv over publishing in journals. To bring more balance, computer science needs more high-quality journals with a short submission-to-publication time, monthly or even bi-weekly issues, and open-access. Scattered initiatives are beginning to change the scene. The 1995 guideline of Patterson et a...

“Take as your place of worship the place where Abraham stood (to pray).”

In the verse “Take as your place of worship the place where Abraham stood (to pray)” Abraham’s position is an intense discussion among Fariqain commentators. Commentary of this verse as Mosalla of Tawaf prayer and Tawaf area has a practical and jurisprudential role during Hajj and Umrah. On commentary of Abraham’s position and his status, more than six exegetic viewpoints have been proposed fro...

How to Fragment Your File System

Yang Zhan is a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is advised by Donald Porter. His research mainly focuses on writeoptimized data structures. He also works on concurrent data structures. [email protected] File systems attempt to avoid aging, or fragmentation over time, by strategically allocating space for files. System implementers and users alike treat aging as ...

Geotagging Where Cyberspace Comes to Your Place

The combination of GPS services and information technology is increasing with the use of geotagging now occurring as a default action in many commodity based devices functionality for example mobile phones and cameras. The camera in suitably enabled phones takes the picture and embeds GPS co-ordinates of the location into the metadata of the resulting image file. Furthermore there are now onlin...

Choosing where to have your baby.