Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8079019 | Advancing and rewinding a replayed program execution In an embodiment, a data processing system comprises a storage system coupled to a unit under test comprising a heap memory, a static memory and a stack; second logic operable to perform: detecting one or more changes in a first state of the heap memory and the stat... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7958497 | State synchronization in recording and replaying computer programs Recording and replaying computer programs includes state synchronization and thread management techniques that facilitate accurately replaying the recorded execution of a multithreaded application program. State synchronization comprises, during execution of an appl... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7673181 | Detecting race conditions in computer programs Recording and replaying computer programs includes detecting whether a race condition exists among multiple threads of a multithreaded application program. In an embodiment, detecting race conditions comprises detecting and preventing an operation of a first thread ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7506318 | Recording and replaying computer programs A method is disclosed for recording and replaying computer programs. In one embodiment, a method of modifying a computer program to support recording execution, comprises the computer-implemented steps of receiving an executable application binary; modifying the exe... | 03/17/2009 |
