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The game industry is becoming a multi-billion dollar industry with revenues overcoming those of the movie industry.

Monitoring data streams in a distributed system is the focus of much research in recent years.

Why small computers? What are the trends? How well are they doing? Marketing VP and serial startup entrepreneur Don Anderson will tell us the Gumstix story. Gumstix, Inc.

The SenseCam is a personal, wearable camera developed by Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, and used as a lifelogging device in projects like MyLifeBits.

The algebraic methods had turned out to be very useful in many graph applications, starting from transitive closure computations and ending on counting perfect matchings.

Removing Camera Shake from a Single Photograph; Aaron Hertzmann - University of Toronto: Camera shake during exposure leads to objectionable image blur and ruins many photographs.

In the first part of the talk, I will first give a brief overview of recent research in my group on 3D shape analysis, modeling, and animation. The second part will be devoted to symmetry.

High-level semantic vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting have surpassed buffer overflows as the most prevalent security exploits.

Consider a problem in extremal graph theory of the following type: find the maximum density of a subgraph F in a graph, where the density of one or more other subgraphs are fixed.

Tim Hunt and Aaron Davis of Lingotek will lecture on the use of Language Search Engines as a platform for improving both human translation and machine translation.

The Space Elevator is a radical technology for accessing space. The concept was first published in 1960 and was subsequently popularized in science fiction stories.

Shannon's information theory was a towering achievement of 20th century science and laid a theoretical foundation for understanding how to design communication systems, and to judge their optimality.

In the shadow of the commercial game entertainment industry, independent and serious game makers are exploring the nature of games, play and learning in projects that have the potential to change

Frank Herbert wrote over 30 bestselling books during his lifetime, including the now classic six novels set in the Dune universe.

With email we can send a message to nearly anyone, anytime, from anywhere…but that doesn’t always mean that we should.

Cryptographic hash functions are a fundamental primitive, utilized in numerous security applications.

Mediators are reliable parties that can act on behalf of agents that give them the right of play.

In this two-part talk, we will first present techniques for harnessing unused capacity in wireless networks.

Programming by children and other non-experts is usually conceived of as a task that begins with the primitives of the programming language and works upward toward working programs.

The social activity which surrounds the playing of MMO types games, like Ultima Online, AsheronΓÇÖs Call or EverQuest, or first person shooter games, like Counter-Strike or Battlefield 2 has been

Small computing devices are increasingly being equipped with sensors, large storage capacities, and capable, low-power processors.

Creating, Editing, and Viewing Very BIG Images; Michael Cohen, Matt Uyttendaele, Johannes Kopf - Microsoft Research: Very high resolution ΓÇ£gigapixelΓÇ¥ images offer a variety of new viewing and

Data warehousing and analytic processing have been active areas of database research and development for nearly two decades, and many experts now consider these problems to be solved, especially

Factored Time-Lapse Video - Hanspeter Pfister - Harvard University: In this talk I will describe a method for converting time-lapse photography captured with outdoor cameras into Factored Time-Lapse

Computational Photography and Bilateral Image Decomposition; Frédo Durand - Massachusetts Institute of Technology: This talk describes new imaging architectures as well as software techniques that

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Within this generation, software has changed the way that individuals collaborate, organizations do business, economies operate, and cultures interact.

Unsupervised learning of linguistic structure is a difficult task.

Video games are big business, but can they be much bigger businesses?

Discourse is the study of how the meaning of a document is built out the meanings of its sentences.  As such it is the inter-sentential analogue of semantics.  In this talk we consider the