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Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.

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Defending DRAM for data safety and security in the cloud with Dr. Stefan Saroiu

July 8, 2020

Dynamic random-access memory – or DRAM – is the most popular form of volatile computer memory in the world but it’s particularly susceptible to Rowhammer, an adversarial attack that can cause data loss and security…

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Optics for the Cloud PhD Event 2020 – Day 2

July 2, 2020 | Francesca Parmigiani, Alessandro Ottino, Kari Clark, Pablo Wilke Berenguer, Arastu Sharma, Grant Brodnik, Mark Harrington

This Virtual PhD Event will bring together the PhD students funded through the Optics for the Cloud Research Alliance and their academic and Microsoft supervisors with Research Alliance members and the wider Optics for the…

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Optics for the Cloud PhD Event 2020 – Day 1

July 1, 2020 | Ant Rowstron, Hitesh Ballani, Arslan Raja, Wenjing Tian, Jintao Hong, Hubert Dzieciol, Paolo Costa, Francesca Parmigiani

This Virtual PhD Event will bring together the PhD students funded through the Optics for the Cloud Research Alliance and their academic and Microsoft supervisors with Research Alliance members and the wider Optics for the…

Publication

Quantifying Molecular Bias in DNA Data Storage

Yuan-Jyue Chen, Christopher N. Takahashi, Lee Organick, Callista Bee, Siena Dumas Ang, Patrick Weiss, Bill Peck, Georg Seelig, Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss

Nature Communications | June 2020, Vol 11(3264)

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Buddy compression: enabling larger memory for deep learning and HPC workloads on GPUs

Esha Choukse, Michael B. Sullivan, Mike O’Connor, Mattan Erez, Jeff Pool, David Nellans, Stephen W. Keckler

2020 International Symposium on Computer Architecture | May 2020

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Content-Based Similarity Search in Large-Scale DNA Data Storage Systems

Callista Bee, Yuan-Jyue Chen, David Ward, Xiaomeng Liu, Georg Seelig, Karin Strauss, Luis Ceze

May 2020

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Beyond the Prototype: Understanding the Challenge of Scaling Hardware Device Production

Rushil Khurana, Steve Hodges

CHI 2020 | April 2020

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SelfSustainableCHI: Self-Powered Sustainable Interfaces and Interactions

Yogesh Kumar Meena, Niels Henze, Xing-Dong Yang, Steve Hodges, Markus Löchtefeld, Matt Jones, Matt Carnie, Nivedita Arora, Gregory D. Abowd

CHI 2020 | April 2020

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Using Surface Acoustic Wave Devices for Self-powered Sensing & Interaction

Sai Ganesh Swaminathan, Scott Hudson, Steve Hodges

SelfSustainableCHI Workshop, CHI 2020 | April 2020

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New Opportunities for Sustainable Interaction Using Backscatter Sensors

Tengxiang Zhang, Steve Hodges

SelfSustainableCHI Workshop, CHI 2020 | April 2020