Understanding sources of inefficiency in general-purpose chips

Sources of Inefficiency in Healthcare and Education.

the article page for additional materials and author disclosure statement(s). Healthcare and education share commonalities in mission, financing, and empirical regularities. Both are central to allowing people to perform at their capabilities. Both are often provided by, or subsidized by, government. Heterogeneity— the idea that interventions such as AP classes or bypass surgery may have differ...

Understanding the Strength of General-Purpose Cutting Planes

Cutting planes for a mixed-integer program are linear inequalities which are satisfied by all feasible solutions of the latter. These are fundamental objects in mixed-integer programming that are critical for solving large-scale problems in practice. One of the main challenge in employing them is that there are limitless possibilities for generating cutting planes; the selection of the stronges...

WIC: A General-Purpose Algorithm for Monitoring Web Information Sources

The Web is becoming a universal information dissemination medium, due to a number of factors including its support for content dynamicity. A growing number of Web information providers post near real-time updates in domains such as auctions, stock markets, bulletin boards, news, weather, roadway conditions, sports scores, etc. External parties often wish to capture this information for a wide v...

General-Purpose Computation without General-Purpose Processors

General Purpose Silicon Trigger Board for the CMS Pixel Read Out Chips

A semester research project was completed at Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich) and the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in the spring of 2010. A new kind of trigger based on silicon pixel sensors was developed for the commissioning of the current Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) pixel detector. Prior to this trigger there was no silicon sensor based trigger that used the same techn...