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Quantum computers have the potential to solve certain computational problems, for example, factoring composite numbers, more efficiently than modern computers.

Many practical problems in pattern recognition require making inferences using multiple modalities, e.g. sensor data from video, audio, physiological changes etc.

War is seemingly everywhere around us, and not just the war in Iraq. There are culture wars, internet wars, business wars, nasty political wars.

The goal of code obfuscation is to make a program completely unintelligible while preserving its functionality.

Despite years of research on static techniques, the state of practice for analyzing concurrent software remains relatively primitive.

The internet enables radically more effective means of bottom up grassroots organizing.  The Dean Campaign and MoveOn are early examples of what is possible when citizens are empowered through

Mesh networks were proposed as a promising low cost, easy to deploy network architecture for wired and wireless networks.

Web personalization has demonstrated to be advantageous for both online customers and vendors. However, its benefits are counteracted by privacy concerns.

This talk introduces a concurrency control abstraction, called preemptible atomic regions (PARs).

While most users of technology are not students of art, all are immersed in a cultural landscape that has a shared and rich visual heritage.

While today's users work with and encounter a growing number and variety of computational devices (desktop PCs, laptops, tablets, PDAs, cellphones, etc.), continued adherence to the model of working

In 2002, DARPA launched the High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program, with the goal of improving user productivity on High-End Computing systems for the year 2010.

Publicly-accessible adaptive systems such as recommender systems present a security problem.

The field of computer science is undergoing a major change.

The vision of GeoDec is to enable an information-rich and realistic 3-dimensional visualization and/or simulation of a geographical location (e.g., a city), rapidly and accurately.

ItΓÇÖs a chronic dilemma: investors demand growthΓÇöyet the older a company gets, the harder it is to deliver the kind of innovations that younger startups are known for.

Decision trees may be intelligible, but do they perform well enough that you'd really want to use them?  Have SVMs replaced neural nets, or are neural nets still the best models for regression, and

Melissa Whit, the Washington Rep for Promethean, will be bringing in a Promethean ACTIVboard to demonstrate to us.

In this talk we present STONe, Secure Trusted Overlay Network, a novel robust network infrastructure that provides privacy-preserving communication.

Carol Evans will introduce worklife balance and flexible work programs from multiple Fortune 500 companies.

Joint work with Jean Ponce at UIUC, and Cordelia Schmid, Jianguo Zhang, and Marcin Marszalek at INRIA Rhone-Alpes.

We model an environment, where bidders private values may change over time as a result of both costly private actions and exogenous shocks.

Network coding is good. Among other advantages, it allows for greater throughput, more robust code design, and decentralization of code design.

In this talk I will give an overview of some recent work done by my research group in the area of camera calibration and 3D reconstruction.

Searchers can find the construction of query statements for submission to search systems a problematic activity.

Joint work with David Chiang (University of Maryland) K-best parsing (and k-best processing in general) has become a popular technique in natural language processing.

Without an impending disaster, itΓÇÖs difficult to motivate people to get prepared.

How do you make sure you can see and understand the critical social processes of your customers-both the millions who have adapted to the emerging social age and the millions who haven't yet made

We present novel techniques to utilize the high computational power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to significantly accelerate many of the traditional general purpose algorithms on CPUs.

There have been many graph-based approaches for semi-supervised classification.