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Alexander Van't Hof
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 13
Citations - 448
Alexander Van't Hof is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Android (operating system) & Mobile device. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 11 publications receiving 426 citations.
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Cells: a virtual mobile smartphone architecture
TL;DR: Cells introduces a usage model of having one foreground virtual phone and multiple background virtual phones that enables a new device namespace mechanism and novel device proxies that integrate with lightweight operating system virtualization to multiplex phone hardware across multiple virtual phones while providing native hardware device performance.
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Systems and method for implementing multiple personas on mobile technology platforms
TL;DR: In this paper, a mobile technology platform (121) is provided which is equipped with a display (123) and which comprises (a) an operating system; and (b) a software program which runs on said operating system and which establishes a plurality of personas (138, 139) for a user of the platform, wherein each of the personas has a unique set of user preferences associated with it, and wherein said software program establishes a selectable region on the display which toggles between said plurality of personsas.
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The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Cells: A Virtual Smartphone Architecture
TL;DR: Cells introduces a usage model of having one foreground virtual phone and multiple background virtual phones that enables a new device namespace mechanism and novel device proxies that integrate with lightweight operating system virtualization to multiplex phone hardware across multiple virtual phones while providing native hardware device performance.
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Flux: multi-surface computing in Android
TL;DR: Flux is an Android-based system that enables any app to become multi-surface through app migration, and can migrate many popular, unmodified Android apps---including those with extensive device interactions like 3D accelerated graphics---across heterogeneous devices and is fast enough for interactive use.
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Cider: native execution of iOS apps on android
Jeremy C. Andrus,Alexander Van't Hof,Naser AlDuaij,Christoffer Dall,Nicolas Viennot,Jason Nieh +5 more
TL;DR: Cider enhances the domestic operating system of a device with kernel-managed, per-thread personas to mimic the application binary interface of a foreign operating system, iOS, enabling it to run unmodified foreign binaries.