[MobiSys2012] Fast App Launching for Mobile Devices Using Predictive User Context

Tingxin Yan, David Chu, Deepak Ganesan, Aman Kansal, Jie Liu.  Fast App Launching for Mobile Devices Using Predictive User Context. To appear in The 10th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 2012), Low Wood Bay, UK, Jun 25-29, 2012.

Paper: falcon-mobisys2012-cameraready
Slides: falcon-mobisys2012-slides

News

FALCON in the news: Engadget, The Verge and more...

April 19, 2012

FALCON, part of the ConDOS project, was highlighted in the media. Here are links to a few of the news articles.

Windows Phone OS mod speeds up app load times, knows you’ll play Monopoly on your break (video)

Microsoft testing a Windows Phone system that pre-loads apps based on contextual data

代号猎鹰 WP系统新技术减少应用加载时间 (New Windows Phone technology code-named Falcon reduces application load time)

消息称微软研究部致力研发手机写入程序 (Microsoft Research presents new innovations for the mobile phone)

加快应用启动 微软为WP测试新功能 (Microsoft tests new Windows Phone feature to speed up app launch)

Over +600 English articles, +200 Chinese news articles, +80 Spanish articles, +60 German articles, …

FALCON video posted

April 14, 2012

Check out the FALCON demo video that I put together.

See more info on FALCON, part of the ConDOS project.

Most Watched Videos of 2012

Update: The Falcon demo video has over 30,000 views.  As of Apr 21st, it is the most watched MSR video of 2012.