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Computability: Exploring Theoretical Limits of Computation

Delve into computability theory, focusing on what is computable and the limits of computation. Explore concepts like Rice's Theorem, the Halting Problem, and classes of expressiveness in computability theory, such as combinational logic, finite-state machines, pushdown automata, and Turing machines.

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Overview of Distributed Systems: Characteristics, Classification, Computation, Communication, and Fault Models

Characterizing Distributed Systems: Multiple autonomous computers with CPUs, memory, storage, and I/O paths, interconnected geographically, shared state, global invariants. Classifying Distributed Systems: Based on synchrony, communication medium, fault models like crash and Byzantine failures. Comp

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Computation of Machine Hour Rate: Understanding MHR and Overhead Rates

Computation of Machine Hour Rate (MHR) involves determining the overhead cost of running a machine for one hour. The process includes dividing overheads into fixed and variable categories, calculating fixed overhead hourly rates, computing variable overhead rates, and summing up both for the final M

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Enhanced Security in Multiparty Computation

Explore the improved black-box constructions of composable secure computation, focusing on definitions, objectives, and the formalization basics of multiparty computation (MPC). Learn about the motivating security aspects in MPC and the real/ideal paradigm. Discover how MPC security involves compari

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Understanding Numerical Methods and Errors in Computation

Delve into the world of numerical methods through the guidance of Dr. M. Mohamed Surputheen. Explore topics such as solving algebraic and transcendental equations, simultaneous linear algebraic equations, interpolation, numerical integration, and solving ordinary differential equations. Learn about

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Trust Income Computation and Application Guidelines

Learn about income computation of trusts using ITR-5 vs. ITR-7, types of institutions, components of income, application of income, and important guidelines including amendments by FA2022 for charitable and religious trusts.

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Understanding Human Behavior: Foundations and Factors

Human behavior is a multifaceted subject influenced by genetic makeup, culture, and individual values. It encompasses both overt actions and covert thoughts, a product of the individual and environmental factors. Psychologists study behavior from visible (overt) actions like playing football to inne

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Secure Computation Techniques in RAM Models with Efficient Automation

Explore the automation of efficient RAM-model secure computation techniques, including examples such as secure binary search. Discover how traditional solutions using circuit abstractions can be improved for sub-linear time computation through methods like Oblivious RAM. Learn about techniques such

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Secure Multiparty Computation for Department of Education Data Sharing

This report discusses the use of Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) to enable sharing of sensitive Department of Education data across organizational boundaries. The application of SMC allows for joint computation while keeping individual data encrypted, ensuring privacy and security within the Nat

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Advancements in Active Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC)

Delve into the realm of secure multiparty computation under 1-bit leakage, exploring the intersection of DP algorithms, MPC, and the utilization of leakage for enhanced performance. Discover the overhead implications of achieving active security, as well as the evolution of secure computation protoc

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Enhancing Computation in Physics Education Using Cognitive Approaches

Utilizing evidence-based methods, this study explores incorporating computation in physics courses, focusing on instructional design, student knowledge states, and preparation for future learning. It discusses common conceptual difficulties in quantum mechanics and proposes cognitive theory-based st

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Covert Actions and Their Consequences

The chapter discusses foreign covert actions, their limited statutory control, and the President's discretion in carrying them out. It delves into the Bay of Pigs incident, forms of covert actions like propaganda and paramilitary actions, unintended consequences, and the Neutrality Act of 1794. The

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Eisenhower's Cold War Policies and Covert Operations

Eisenhower's Cold War policies focused on Massive Retaliation, Brinkmanship, and Covert Operations. He believed in investing in nuclear weapons and used threats of nuclear capabilities to deter conflicts. The CIA carried out covert operations to overthrow anti-American leaders in different countries

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Secure Multiparty Computation: Enhancing Privacy in Data Sharing

Secure multiparty computation (SMC) enables parties with private inputs to compute joint functions without revealing individual data, ensuring privacy and correctness. This involves computations on encrypted data using techniques like homomorphic encryption for scenarios like e-voting. SMC serves as

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Understanding Sequence Alignment and Scoring Matrices

In this content, we dive into the fundamentals of sequence alignment, Opt score computation, reconstructing alignments, local alignments, affine gap costs, space-saving measures, and scoring matrices for DNA and protein sequences. We explore the Smith-Waterman algorithm (SW) for local sequence align

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Covert Visual Search and Effective Oculomotor Range Constraints

The study delves into whether covert visual search is biologically limited by the Effective Oculomotor Range (EOMR), exploring neuropsychological evidence, eye movement studies, and participant measurements. It investigates the impact on visual search tasks, including color, orientation, and conjunc

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COMET: Code Offload by Migrating Execution - OSDI'12 Summary

The research paper discusses COMET, a system for transparently offloading computation from mobile devices to network resources to improve performance. It outlines the goals of COMET, its design, and evaluation, focusing on distributed shared memory and bridging computation disparity through offloadi

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Exploring Challenges and Opportunities in Processing-in-Memory Architecture

PIM technology aims to enhance performance by moving computation closer to memory, improving bandwidth, latency, and energy efficiency. Despite initial setbacks, new strategies focus on cost-effectiveness, programming models, and overcoming implementation challenges. A new direction proposes intuiti

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Actively Secure Arithmetic Computation and VOLE Study

Exploring actively secure arithmetic computation and VOLE with constant computational overhead at Tel Aviv University. Understanding how functions are represented in secure computation using arithmetic circuits over boolean circuits. Efficiently evaluating arithmetic circuits over large finite field

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Enhancing Mobile-Cloud Computing with Autonomous Agents Framework

Autonomous Agents-based Mobile-Cloud Computing (MCC) refers to moving computing tasks to powerful centralized platforms in the cloud, offering advantages like extending battery life and dynamic resource provisioning. However, an inflexible split of computation between mobile and cloud platforms lead

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Enhancing Multi-Party Computation Efficiency Through ORAM Techniques

Explore the realm of efficient random access in multi-party computation through the reevaluation of classic schemes and the introduction of new approaches. Discover the potential of ORAM in improving performance and reducing costs in various computational tasks, such as secure multi-party computatio

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Enhancing I/O Performance on SMT Processors in Cloud Environments

Improving I/O performance and efficiency on Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) processors in virtualized clouds is crucial for maximizing system throughput and resource utilization. The vSMT-IO approach focuses on efficiently scheduling I/O workloads on SMT CPUs by making them "dormant" on hardware

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Covert Actions and Laws: A Historical Overview

Covert actions, unconstrained by domestic laws, have been historically carried out by various entities in different ways. This overview delves into the Intelligence Authorization Act of 1991, limitations imposed by Congress, utilization of private contractors, challenges in enforcement, and relevant

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Bootstrapping in Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) allows evaluation of unbounded-depth circuits without being limited by specific parameters. Bootstrapping is a critical technique to achieve full homomorphism by refreshing ciphertexts, enabling decryption functionalities within the encryption scheme. This process

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Homomorphic Encryption and RLWE Schemes Overview

Homomorphic encryption allows computation on encrypted data, enabling privacy in outsourced computing services and applications like spam filters for encrypted mail. The Ring Learning With Errors (RLWE) scheme and its properties are discussed, along with symmetric encryption from RLWE and fully homo

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Efficient Multi-Party Computation Techniques

Explore the innovative approaches to Multi-Party Computation (MPC) such as MPC via Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and Multi-Key FHE. The focus is on minimizing round complexity and achieving secure distributed computations. Learn about key concepts, protocols, and advancements in the realm of MP

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Exploring Secure Computation in the Age of Information

Welcome to Secure Computation Lecture 1 by Arpita Patra. The course covers evaluation policies, projects, and references in the realm of secure computation. The content delves into the significance of information security across various sectors, emphasizing the importance of safeguarding sensitive d

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Secure Two-Party Computation and Basic Secret-Sharing Concepts

In today's lecture of "Foundations of Cryptography," the focus is on secure two-party and multi-party computation, emphasizing semi-honest security where Alice and Bob must compute without revealing more than necessary. Concepts such as real-world vs. ideal-world scenarios, the existence of PPT simu

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Linear Communication in Secure Multiparty Computation for Efficient and Fast Processing

The research focuses on achieving perfectly secure multiparty computation (MPC) with linear communication and constant expected time. It explores efficient approaches using a broadcast-hybrid model and P2P communication, aiming to balance speed and efficiency in MPC. The study highlights the importa

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Secure Computation Challenges and Solutions in Data Mining

Exploring the intersection of secure computation and data mining, this content uncovers key challenges such as improving algorithms, converting programs for secure computation, and addressing parallelizability issues. It highlights the importance of cryptography in ensuring data privacy and presents

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Covert Computation: Ensuring Undetectable Engagement

Covert computation aims to conceal the fact that computation is occurring and hide engagement in certain tasks like secure computation, authenticated key exchange, and more. By making messages indistinguishable and utilizing steganographic channels, it becomes possible to keep the activities covert

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Overview of Turing Machines: Introduction, Tape, and Computation

Turing Machines are fundamental in the theory of computation, capable of recognizing all computable languages. They consist of a Finite State Machine combined with an infinite tape. The tape is initialized with input on the left end, and a TM's computation can either halt by entering special accept

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Computation for Real Estate Sector in Bangalore Branch of ICAI

Practical overview of GST computation for real estate transactions in Bangalore, with details on old rates with ITC and new rate regime effective from April 1, 2019. The content discusses different transactions, conditions for new rates without ITC, and provides insights on the 80:20 computation met

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Fides: A System for Verifiable Computation Using Smart Contracts

Fides presents a system for verifiable computation using smart contracts, focusing on blockchain basics, Ethereum, smart contracts, and outsourcing computation. It explores key components of blockchain, Ethereum's decentralized computing platform, properties of smart contracts, and the concept of ve

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Insights into Secure Computation with Minimal Interaction

This paper revisits the concept of secure computation with minimal interaction, focusing on the challenges and possibilities of achieving secure multiparty computation in 2 rounds. Specifically exploring scenarios with 3 and 4 parties, the study delves into the reasons for choosing n=3, n=4, and t=1

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Overview of Income Computation and Disclosure Standards (ICDS)

The Income-tax Act, 1961 introduced Income Computation and Disclosure Standards (ICDS) to be followed by certain assesses for computation of income. ICDS applies to taxpayers using the mercantile system of accounting from the Assessment Year 2016-17 onwards. Non-compliance with ICDS can lead to Best

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Blackbox Verifiable Computation Scheme Overview

This summarized content discusses the concept of blackbox verifiable computation, focusing on the challenges faced by clients and servers, the role of helper oracles, positive results utilizing homomorphic encryption, and background information on Random Self Reducible (RSR) functions. The protocol

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Parallel Computation for Matrix Multiplication

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental operation with diverse applications across scientific research. Parallel computation for matrix multiplication involves distributing the computational workload over multiple processors, improving efficiency. Different algorithms have been developed for multiply

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Understanding Covert Timing Channels in Network Security

Covert timing channels are a method of leaking sensitive information across networks by violating security policies. These channels rely on conveying information through packet arrival patterns rather than the contents of the packets. Military applications, detection by USA government agencies, and

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Advanced Techniques in Multi-Party Computation

Explore cutting-edge methods in Multi-Party Computation (MPC), including leveraging Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) for minimal round complexity, constructing MPC directly via FHE techniques, and simplifying multi-key FHE constructions for efficient decryption. Learn about key concepts such as di

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