John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

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David Spade slammed a mall's tree-lighting ceremony for omitting the word "Christmas." In the Sunday episode of Spade and Dana Carvey's "Fly on the Wall" podcast, the 61-year-old "Grown Ups" actor ...

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Abstract: Obliviousness is crypto primitives which intent to hide access pattern. Although ORAM is strongest crypto model, it incurs significant overhead. Elaine Shi et. al. propose Obliviousness Data ...