It responds to a specific set of instructions in a well-defined manner. It can execute a prerecorded list of instructions (a program). It can quickly store and retrieve large amounts of data.

Machine Learning is concerned with computer programs that automatically improve their performance through experience (e.g., programs that learn to recognize human faces, recommend music and movies, ...

`Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of ...

Welcome to the Fall 2025 edition of 15-412, Operating System Practicum. Readings page [Last modified Friday January 10, 2025] ...

Guaranteed-Quality Anisotropic Mesh Generation. If you're in Soda Hall, you'll find copies of most of my papers hanging outside my office (625). Take the ones you want. FAR AND AWAY MY MOST POPULAR ...

Thread operations include thread creation, termination, synchronization (joins,blocking), scheduling, data management and process interaction. A thread does not maintain a list of created threads, nor ...

I'm a professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon. I am also affiliated with the Robotics Institute. I'm interested in multi-agent planning, reinforcement learning, ...

Predicting the Past: Estimating Historical Appraisals with OCR and Machine Learning. Mihir Bhaskar, Jun Tao Luo, Zihan Geng, Asmita Hajra, Junia Howell, Matthew R. Gormley.

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Computer systems design is full of conundrums: Given a choice between a single machine with speed s, or n machines each with speed s/n, which should we choose? If both the arrival rate and service ...

If there were a single, obvious definition of information warfare, someone would have already written it down. The fact that no one has done so indicates that perhaps no simple definition exists.

... (the techniques used in modern brainwashing) are not like the medieval torture of the rack and the thumb-screw. They are subtler, more prolonged, and intended to ...