How I learned to start worrying and love the just war tradition

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Plugins

This position paper argues that browsers should be responsible for specifying and enforcing security policies for browser plugins. By enabling the browser to make security decisions on behalf of the plugin, browsers can significantly reduce the impact of plugin vulnerabilities and eliminate much of the risk posed by today’s plugin exploits. We propose policies for document access, persistent st...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Flash Endurance

Flash memory in Solid-State Disks (SSDs) has gained tremendous popularity in recent years. The performance and power benefits of SSDs are especially attractive for use in data centers, whose workloads are I/O intensive. However, the apparent limited write-endurance of flash memory has posed an impediment to the wide deployment of SSDs in data centers. Prior architecture and system level studies...

Zornian Functional Analysis or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Axiom of Choice

Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the core competencies.

Swallow hard. If you are a neurology residency program director, plan to be one, or spend considerable amounts of time around one, you may feel that you are in for a rough ride over the next couple of years. New work hours restrictions imposed by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) have created significant strains on our system of providing neurologic education, lead...

The Inevitable Ontological Commitment or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ontology

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of Foundational Ontologies, i.e., formal ontological theories in the philosophical sense, for providing real-world semantics for conceptual modeling languages, and theoretically sound foundations and methodological guidelines for evaluating and improving the individual models produced using these languages. The lack of proper...