RIPQ: Advanced photo caching on flash for Facebook

February 27, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ Leave a comment

RIPQ: Advanced Photo Caching on Flash for Facebook - Tang et al. 2015 It's three for the price of one with this paper: we get to deepen our understanding of the characteristics of flash, examine a number of priority queue and caching algorithms, and get a glimpse into what's behind an important part of Facebook's ... Continue Reading

F2FS: A new file system for flash storage

February 26, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

F2FS: A New File System for Flash Storage - Lee et al. 2015 For the second half of February's research conference highlights, we're visiting FAST '15, the File and Storage Technologies conference. We've seen a few statements so far in this series that Flash storage has the potential to be very disruptive. But beyond the ... Continue Reading

Bloom Cookies: web search personalization without user tracking

February 25, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 1 Comment

Bloom Cookies: Web search personalization without user tracking - Mor et al. 2015 After yesterday's homomorphic encryption-based paper it's a relief to read a privacy paper I can follow from end to end! Online services track us as much as they can get away with, in order to offer personalized services (including the 'service' of ... Continue Reading

Machine Learning Classification over Encrypted Data

February 24, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

Machine Learning Classification over Encrypted Data - Bost et al. 2015 This is the 2nd of three papers we'll be looking at this week from the NDSS '15 conference held earlier this month in San Diego. When it comes to providing an informed critique of the security techniques applied in this paper, I'm out of ... Continue Reading

Information-Flow Analysis of Android Applications in DroidSafe

February 23, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ Leave a comment

Information-Flow Analysis of Android Applications in DroidSafe - Gordon et al. 2015 This is the first of three papers we'll be looking at this week from the NDSS'15 conference that took place earlier this month. DroidSafe is a tool that looks for potential leaks of sensitive information in Android applications. And it works incredibly well! ... Continue Reading

NDSS and FAST week on The Morning Paper

February 22, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ Leave a comment

In January the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) was held, and I dedicated a week of The Morning Paper to reviewing some of my favourite papers from the programme. For February, I've chosen two conferences to bring you papers from: NDSS 2015 - The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium held in San ... Continue Reading

Edelweiss: Automatic storage reclamation for distributed programming

February 20, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 5 Comments

Edelweiss: Automatic storage reclamation for distributed programming - Conway et al. 2014 This is the final selection from Peter Alvaro is his desert island paper week, and what a great paper to finish on! Please don't let the title of this paper put you off! To be honest, the title didn't really grab my attention ... Continue Reading

Broadcast disks: data management for asymmetric communication environments

February 19, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ Leave a comment

Broadcast Disks: Data Management for Asymmetric Communication Environments - Acharya et al. 1997. (This is the fourth of Peter Alvaro's 'desert island paper' selections). Do you remember teletext? Before the web, this was the only on-demand information service for the general population. In the UK, we had the wonderful Ceefax. You would choose your page ... Continue Reading

TAG: A Tiny Aggregation Service for ad-hoc Sensor Networks

February 18, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

TAG: A Tiny Aggregation Service for ad-hoc Sensor Networks - Madden et al. 2002 ** updated broken link above ** This is the third in a series of 5 'desert island paper' selections from Peter Alvaro. The topics discussed in this paper seem so highly relevant to the current hope and excitement for the Internet ... Continue Reading

Generative Communication in Linda

February 17, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

Generative Communication in Linda - Gelernter 1985 This is the second of five papers selected by Peter Alvaro as part of his 'Desert Island papers' nominations. Generative communication is the basis of a new distributed programming language called Linda... Where most distributed languages are partially distributed in space and nondistributed in time, Linda is fully ... Continue Reading

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Month: February 2015