Sverker Janson

Sverker Janson

Ph.D.; Director, Computer Systems Laboratory

Publications: see, e.g., parallel computing, utility computing, self-management, trading agents, agent-based markets, soft security, concurrent constraint programming; popular science in Swedish, e.g., smartare e-handel and internet om 20 år.

 

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Latest blog entries

Hybrid Transactional Memory

2006-10-15

Damron, Fedorova, Lev, Luchangco, Moir, and Nussbaum of Sun Microsystems propose Hybrid Transactional Memory (HyTM), combining Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) with Software Transactional Memory (STM), in an upcoming paper at ASPLOS'06....

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Concurrent Constraint Programming

2006-09-08

When, if ever, will we witness the taming of multiprocessor computing?  With current tools, writing (general purpose) parallel software that will scale well with future generation M core x N thread machines may very well be an order of magnitude harder than writing the equivalent sequential software....

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Human Computation (a Google TechTalk)

2006-08-16

Lars Rasmusson suggested seeing a Google TechTalk on Google Video: Human Computation by Luis Von Ahn.

Luis co-invented the now ubiquitous CAPTCHAs....

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