Yes. The first thing I wanted to know was whether this was a "classic" paper published a few years ago (e.g., Gul Agha's MIT AI-TR 844) or whether it was curre

Yes. The first thing I wanted to know was whether this was a "classic" paper published a few years ago (e.g., Gul Agha's MIT AI-TR 844) or whether it was current. That question is instantly answered in the abstract. Instead, I went to look at the references to see when they were published, where I caught this amusing line: AMD AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual October 12, 3011 From the future! :-)