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Everything about Memory segmentation
Division of computer's primary memory into separately relocatable segments or sections
Memory segmentation is an operating system memory management technique of dividing a computer's primary memory into segments or sections. In a computer system using segmentation, a reference to a memory location includes a value that identifies a segment and an offset within that segment. Segments or sections are also used in object files of compiled programs when they are linked together into a program image and when the image is loaded into memory. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Memory segmentationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Space-Time Memory Networks for Video Object Segmentation With User GuidanceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Modern Operating SystemsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Segmentation in the perception and memory of eventsCited 627 times
- Go sideways: Burroughs Large SystemsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: X86 memory segmentationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Segmentation in the perception and memory of events
Event segmentation ability uniquely predicts event memory
Pattern Segmentation in Associative Memory
Structuring Memory Through Inference‐Based Event Segmentation
Volumetric memory network for interactive medical image segmentation
Maintenance of multiple working memory items by temporal segmentation
Event segmentation improves event memory up to one month later.
Effects of cues to event segmentation on subsequent memory
🆕 Influential since 2022
Space-Time Memory Networks for Video Object Segmentation With User Guidance
Event segmentation reveals working memory forgetting rate
Prediction error and event segmentation in episodic memory
Temporally Consistent Referring Video Object Segmentation With Hybrid Memory
PReFormer: A memory-efficient transformer for point cloud semantic segmentation
📚 Books worth reading
Modern Operating SystemsAndrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos · 1992
Neural Information ProcessingTingwen Huang · 2012
Computer ArchitectureJoseph D. Dumas II · 2005
Introduction to psycholinguisticsMatthew J. Traxler · 2011
HackingJon Erickson, Jon Erickson · 2003
Microprocessor Architecture, Programming, and Applications with the 8085Ramesh S. Gaonkar · 1996
The handbook of computational linguistics and natural language processingAlexander Clark, Chris Fox · 2010
Advanced OS/2 ProgrammingRay Duncan · 1989
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