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Compiler-Assisted Indirect Branch Predictor

This invention is a low-cost, compiler-guided, correlation-based, indirect jump target address prediction mechanism with high target prediction accuracy. Using compiler-guided techniques instead of relying on purely dynamic history-based prediction techniques substantially reduces branch misprediction. (Read more...)

UT researcher makes skin cancer detection breakthrough

Dr. James Tunnell, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at UT, and a group of graduate students have been working on it for three years. BusinessWeek magazine is calling it one of the top inventions of the decade. This "optical" biopsy was developed to detect or rule out skin cancer while you wait in your doctor's office. (Read the complete story...)

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