Martial Hebert became dean of Carnegie Mellon University's world-renowned School of Computer Science in August 2019. A leading researcher in computer vision and robotics, he's the sixth dean to lead ...

Participants with some technical expertise who want to engage in an extensive hands-on group project in one of our three impact areas can join one of three hackathon experiences. Each hackathon will ...

15-121 is a continuation of the process of program design and analysis for students with prior programming experience (functions, loops, and arrays, not necessarily in Java). The course reinforces ...

This paper develops a shape space framework for collision-aware geometric modeling, where basic geometric operations automatically avoid interpenetration. Shape spaces are a powerful tool for surface ...

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. The numbers '172' can be found on the ...

Customization of text-to-image models enables users to insert custom concepts and generate the concepts in unseen settings. Existing methods either rely on costly test-time optimization or train ...

The SEQUENCE signature is a comprehensive interface for a persistent sequence type. We use a number of notational conventions which can be seen here. For example, we ...

What's the connection between how many bits we can send over a channel and how accurately we can classify documents or fit a curve to data? Is there any connection between decision trees, prefix codes ...

Skip: 3.4-3.5 (IPC), 3.6 (Client-Server) Chapter 3 (Process) Skip: 3.4 (IPC), 3.5 (Client-Server) Chapter 4 (Process) ...

The area of approximation algorithms is aimed at giving provable guarantees on the performance of heuristics for hard problems. The course will present general techniques (such as convex ...

What you see is pinyin, literally 'spell out the sound'. It's a system for romanizing Chinese ideograms, used in mainland China for Mandarin, a.k.a. putonghua.

This article was written in collaboration with Bohan Zhang and originally appeared on the OtterTune website. In this article, we’ll dive into MVCC: what it is, how PostgreSQL does it, and why it is ...