It is with great pleasure that I deliver this little dispatch to you using my most favourite marketing technique (and it's taken years to hone) -- copy; paste.
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mary
p.s. i've been hanging out with these Irish guys.... favourite... get it... i'm trying to fit in, you know...
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SUN MICROSYSTEMS LABORATORIES
Mountain View, CA and Burlington, MA
Announces THREE new technical reports
See the entire collection at:
http://research.sun.com/techrep/
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TR-2005-128 by Bob Goldberg
DASL Language: Programmer's Guide & Reference Manual
TR-2005-131 by Bernard Horan
Use of Capability Descriptions in a Wireless Transducer
Network
TR-2005-143 by Greg Wright, Matthew L. Seidl, and Mario Wolczko
An object-aware memory architecture
***See details, abstracts, bios, and URLs below***
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TR-2005-128 by Bob Goldberg
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DASL Language: Programmer's Guide & Reference Manual
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http://research.sun.com/techrep/2005/abstract-128.html
ABSTRACT
This report provides an intuitive description of the DASL application
modeling language, followed by a formal language specification. DASL was
originally developed as part of the Ace research project at Sun
Microsystems Laboratories to bridge the gap between high level
application modeling languages, such as UML, and the current
implementation languages and middleware in which applications are
written, such as Java(tm), J2EE(tm), and evolving middleware based on
web services.
In essence, DASL technology is a practical realization of the MDA (Model
Driven Architecture) vision to "separate business or application logic
from underlying platform technology" and thus "insulate business
applications from technology evolution."
BIO
Dr. Goldberg is a Senior Computer Scientist, and the chief designer of
the DASL language. He joined Sun in 1995 to develop a database
connectivity strategy for Sun's CORBA effort, which led him to his
current work on architecture-independent application specification
languages. For more, please refer to TR-2005-128 back page.
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TR-2005-131 by Bernard Horan
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Use of Capability Descriptions in a Wireless Transducer
Network
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http://research.sun.com/techrep/2005/abstract-131.html
ABSTRACT
This document presents the requirements for a language to describe the
capabilities of a transducer in a wireless transducer network (WTN). It
provides a survey of existing technologies in this field and concludes
with a framework in which the capabilities of a transducer can be
employed to assist users in the configuration of a WTN. The intended
audience for this paper comprises members of academic and industrial
research groups whose focus is networked devices, such as those used in
wireless sensor networks.
BIO
Bernard Horan is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems
Laboratories, where he has worked on interactive collaborative
environments and Java introspection tools. He is currently working on
projects that explore the use of small wireless transducers. Horan
represented Sun in the W3C Web Ontology Working Group.
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TR-2005-143 by Greg Wright, Matthew L. Seidl, and Mario Wolczko
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An object-aware memory archtecture
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http://research.sun.com/techrep/2005/abstract-143.html
ABSTRACT
Despite its dominance, object-oriented computation has received scant
attention from the architecture community. We propose a novel memory
architecture that supports objects and garbage collection (GC). Our
architecture is co-designed with a Java Virtual Machine to improve the
functionality and efficiency of heap memory management. The architecture
is based on an address space for objects accessed using object IDs
mapped by a translator to physical addresses. ...Our innovations enable
various improvements such as: a novel technique for parallel and
concurrent garbage collection, without requiring any global
synchronization; an in-cache garbage collector, which never accesses
main memory; concurrent compaction of objects; and elimination of most
GC store barrier overhead... For more, see TR-2005-143
BIO
-GREG WRIGHT is a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. His
research interests include processor and memory system architecture and
simulation, virtual machines, and garbage collection.
-MATTHEW SEIDL is a researcher at Sun Microsystems Laboratories as well.
His primary current research involves hardware/software codesign for
improving Java performance on a range of systems.
-MARIO WOLZKO is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems
Laboratories. His current projects include computer architectures for
object-based systems and performance instrumentation hardware design and
usage. See TR-2005-143 back page for more details.
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COMING SOON --- TECH REPORTS "IN THE QUEUE":
The following reports are currently in the process of publication:
TR-2005-101 Jeanie Treichel
The Second 50 Tech Reports: Retrospective
TR-2005-132 Ori Shalev and Nir Shavit
Transient Blocking Synchronization
TR-2005-138 Christoph Schuba
TBD
TR-2004-142 David Detlefs and V. Krishna Nandivada,
Compile-Time Concurrent Marking Write Barrier Removal
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