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A quadrangulation of a surface is a graph embedded in the surface such that every face is a quadrangle.

Knowledge of a person's location provides important context information for many applications, ranging from services such as E911 to personal guidance systems that help cognitively-impaired

Nearly every aspect of television and video today is in transition -- production and storage are moving from tape to disk, distribution is moving from broadcast networks to the Internet, schedules

Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs.

Modern computer systems are complex and often require many hardware components working in concert to accomplish a single task.

We present a new approach for statically analyzing data structure consistency properties.  Our approach is based on specifying interfaces of data structures using abstract sets and relations.

New forms of networking technologies such as overlay, peer-to-peer, and mesh networks, promise the emergence of a new generation of global-scale intelligent networks.

Can learning a foreign language on a computer be fun!? You bet! Dr. Johnson will be presenting on his innovative language tool Tactical Iraqi.

While people can typically make a rapid assessment of another person’s interruptibility, current systems generally have no way to consider whether an interruption is appropriate.  Current systems

Sensor networks are distributed systems embedded in a physical space.

Microsoft Research – 6 сентября 2016, 6:15

In this talk I will survey the latest development in dynamic algorithms for fundamental graph problems, such as shortest paths, reachability and connectivity.

Decision-making under uncertainty is a fundamental activity at every societal level.  The decisions, however, can vary greatly in the amount of information available about the outcome

A grand challenge of computer vision is to understand and parse natural images into boundaries, surfaces and objects.

We describe visual classification by a hierarchy of semantic fragments. In fragment-based classification, objects within a class are represented by common sub-structures selected during training.

Taylor Branch has referred to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a modern American founding father. Over the past twenty five years, Taylor Branch has written three volumes dedicated to the life of Dr.

Human face recognition is a challenging biometric information processing task that has attracted much attention recently.

In recent years user privacy has become an issue for computer system designers, service providers, and an active field of study in academia.

MY YEAR IN IRAQ: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope is the only senior insider's perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.

Carleton University, Canada Simula Research Labs, Norway

Microsoft Research – 6 сентября 2016, 6:13

With the advent of worms, passive malcode, and sophisticated attackers, the Big

Information technology advances are making data collection possible in most if not all fields of science and engineering and beyond.

Get a lean, fit body, feel reenergized and stress-free, and stay in great shape without having to hire a personal trainer, race off to an exercise class, or turn your life upside down.

Current computing systems are primarily designed for a single person working alone at a PC, with support for enabling remote collaboration over a network.

In many game-theoretic settings, the communication between the participants is restricted to specific patterns. These communication patterns may have a crucial effect on the performance of the game.

With uniprocessor performance increases leveling off, and with the semiconductor industry moving towards multicore processors, novel ways of parallelizing the execution of a variety of computing

A common thread in all the recent results concerning testing dense graphs is the use of Szemer\'edi's regularity lemma. In this paper we show that in some sense this is not a coincidence.

In this talk, I will briefly introduce the research activities in the center of intelligent document image processing (CIDIP),Tsinghua University (Beijing, China).

Recently, there has been a lot of dicussion about the convergence of telecommunications, entertainment and computing.