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Designing a modern microprocessor is a complex task that demands careful balance between cycle time, cycles-per-instruction, and area costs. In particular, the instruction fetch unit greatly affects the performance of a multi-issue processor. It must provide adequate bandwidth to sustain peak instruction issue rate, and must predict future instruction sequences with high accuracy. In the UltraS...

In this chapter we discuss the problem of detecting and recognizing the two main categories of advertisement present in television videos: explicit advertisement in the form of commercials, i.e. short video sequences advertising a product or a service, and indirect advertisement, i.e. placement of trademarks and logos. A thorough review on the current state-of-the-art algorithms and systems for...

A primary goal of research into orthogonal persistence is to simplify significantly the construction, maintenance and operation of applications in order to save software costs, extend the range of applications and improve users’ experiences. To test such claims we need relevant experiments. To mount such experiments requires an industrial-strength persistent programming platform. The PJama proj...