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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

#ALGORITHMS: "Mobile Device Design Gets Smarter"

Smarter mobile devices could soon be defined with rules rather than instructions, by virtue of a new paradigm for developing hardware and software.


Next spring, a smarter paradigm for designing mobile devices will debut at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 17th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. There, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will unveil a language that describes a mobile device's functions as sets of rules instead of as instructions. This will allow the functions to be optimally partitioned into hardware and software on an ad hoc basis.
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