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Darwin: a genomics co-processor provides up to 15,000x acceleration on long read assembly

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Darwin: a genomics co-processor provides up to 15,000x acceleration on long read assembly Turakhia et al., ASPLOS'18 With the slow demise of Moore’s law, hardware accelerators are needed to meet the rapidly growing computational requirements of X. For this paper, X = genomics, and genomic data is certainly growing fast: doubling every 7 months and ... Continue Reading

Securing wireless neurostimulators

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Securing wireless neurostimulators Marin et al., CODASPY'18 There’s a lot of thought-provoking material in this paper. The subject is the security of a class of Implantable Medical Devices (IMD) called neurostimulators. These are devices implanted under the skin near the clavicle, and connected directly to the patient’s brain through several leads. They can help to ... Continue Reading

End of Term

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We've reached end of term again, and The Morning Paper will be taking a two-week break, beginning again on Monday 16th April. I hope you enjoyed the selections from the last three months. So much great research, it's hard to highlight just a few! But in case you missed them, here's a small selection covering ... Continue Reading

Adversarial patch

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Adversarial patch Brown, Mané et al., arXiv 2017 Today’s paper choice is short and sweet, but thought provoking nonetheless. To a man with a hammer (sticker), everything looks like a hammer. We’ve seen a number of examples of adversarial attacks on image recognition systems, where the perturbations are designed to be subtle and hard to ... Continue Reading

Anna: A KVS for any scale

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Anna: A KVS for any scale Wu et al., ICDE'18 This work comes out of the RISE project at Berkeley, and regular readers of The Morning Paper will be familiar with much of the background. Here’s how Joe Hellerstein puts it in his blog post introducing the work: As researchers, we asked the counter-cultural question: ... Continue Reading