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With little sophistication, the spike rates from sensory neurons can be used to approximate useful statistics for decision making.

The idea of upgrading performance and utility of computer systems by incorporating parallel processing has been around since at least the 1940s.

A network lies at the heart of many enterprises, connecting the computers that manage the business's data and support its employees with information and communications.

Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) are useful tools for building large scale distributed systems.

Security is always a battle between attackers and defenders. Understanding the adversaries and threats is a crucial effort in building secure systems.

The Internet has experienced an exponential growth in recent years, so has its complexity, which can lead to more network-layer instabilities.

Will a better understanding of the human brain enable engineers to build better interfaces and operating systems? Dan Siegel will discuss neurobiology and its implications for computing.

Collaborating groups have enormous potential to produce higher quality output than individuals working alone, due to the pooling of resources, information, and skills.

There are a number of scenarios where it is desirable to have a wireless device connect to multiple networks simultaneously.

If robots understood metaphors, would that make them poets? Should we be suspicious of anything metaphorical? Why are metaphors so messy and what makes them so neat?

Indoor location information enables applications such as resource discovery, navigation, interactive virtual games, and location-enhanced sensing.

The modeling of curves that come in contact with 3D scene geometry presents a challenging problem for users of graphics systems.

Virtual machine monitors (VMMs) such as VMWare are useful for addressing a wide range of systems problems, including server partitioning, migration, intrusion detection, configuration debugging, and

A fundamental characteristic of many networks is that they are controlled by independent parties.

Recently, a new class of data management applications has emerged in areas such as sensor-based environmental monitoring, financial services, network monitoring, and military applications.

Moore's Law and the wave of technologies it enabled have led to tremendous improvements in productivity and the quality of life in the First World.

Availability of broad-coverage knowledge repositories can potentially enable the next generation of artificial intelligence and natural language understanding applications.

The representation of documents in XML provides an opportunity for information retrieval systems to take advantage of document structure, returning individual document components when appropriate

In this talk we present a static analysis, based on abstract interpretation, for the automatic inference of class invariants in Object-oriented languages.

Collaboration is an important part of nearly all work and educational settings. In practice, however, collaboration is rarely perfect; numerous problems arise, ranging from social loafing to

Key words: Statistical Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Text Mining, and Semantic Integration Most information in the world exists in the format of text, such as news articles and web

This talk presents a component glue code language called SuperGlue.

Traditionally, routers in a communication network forward each data packet to a single neighbor.

In 1962, Tutte presented a simple algorithm to draw a planar graph using straight lines. This algorithm has become the primary method that is used in computer graphics for flattening meshes.

Brilliance is more than just being smart ΓÇô when you are Brilliant you are approaching your professional and personal life energized, in control and achieving results never imagined.

In this talk, I'll discuss a research trajectory that we have been pursuing at Intel Research Seattle. This trajectory is social

In this talk, we discuss the widespread use of Web search engines and its potential impact on the ecology of the Web.

Psychologist and science historian Shermer has put together fourteen articles and personal essays that he has written over the past decade in order to examine how science operates under pressure

The Mars Exploration Rovers are searching for answers about the history of water on Mars. Finding those answers will help scientists determine if life ever was on the Red Planet.

Concave utility functions are widely used in applied economics and in economic theory.