I wouldn’t normally openly disagree with my husband online – these things are usually best kept private! However a little prodding from him was all I needed to publish my own thoughts. Matt recently turned comments off for his blog. …...
Posted by Lauren Dempster at Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:02:30 +0000
Last week I presented a seminar at the Scottish Learning Festival playfully entitled “Breaking Boundaries – technical education in the Scottish Borders”. I attempted to portray a snapshot of what is going in on in some of the SBC scho...
Posted by Stuart Meldrum at Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:21:28 +0100
[Almost a year with no posts - oops!] On Friday I tried out something. I have at the back of my classroom an old TV that isn’t used now we have projectors in each classroom. I was about to start a short metalwork project with my S1 class and was ...
Posted by Stuart Meldrum at Tue, 10 May 2011 09:07:41 +0100
Production Networks Onix: A Distributed Control Platform for Large-scale Production Networks Traditional networking has a traditional router with a forwarding plane and a control plane, which are coupled together in one box. Changing one without the o...
Posted by Derek Murray at Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:30:17 +0100
Deterministic Parallelism Deterministic Process Groups in dOS Many sources of non-determinism in real systems (shared-memory, IPC, pthreads, devices, etc.). This makes programs hard to test, debug and replicate (for fault-tolerance). Multicore only ma...
Posted by Derek Murray at Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:12:58 +0100
Kernels: Past, Present and Future An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores Trust and Protection in the Illinois Browser Operating System FlexSC: Flexible System Call Scheduling with Exception-Less System Calls Inside the Data Center, 1 Finding a ...
Posted by Derek Murray at Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:48:03 +0100
Network IDS NetFence: Preventing Internet Denial of Service from Inside Out DDoS is projected to be the biggest problem facing the internet in the next 12 months, and it is difficult to combat, since it conflicts with the openness and robustness inter...
Posted by Derek Murray at Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:00:04 +0100
Privacy Privacy-Preserving P2P Data Sharing with OneSwarm Three types of data: private, public (non-sensitive) and public (without attribution). This talk is about the last one: want to download and share data without people knowing what you’re ...
Posted by Derek Murray at Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:19 +0100
Wireless and Measurement Efficient Error Estimating Coding: Feasibility and Applications Won best paper award. Existing philosophy: errors are bad and only want completely correct data. Can we accept partially correct packets and only enforce correctn...
Posted by Derek Murray at Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:00:32 +0100
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Posted by Steve Strowes at Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:56:39 +0100