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To adequately design for the expression of emotions we need to look beyond the mere detection and transmission of signals and symbols and realize that emotions exist in a rich labyrinth of

What is the digital code stored in your genome that governs how your genes will be used to carry out diverse activities, such as wiring together neural networks?

The notable KKL Theorem of Kahn, Kalai, and Linial says that if f : {0,1}^n - {0,1} is a balanced boolean function, then there is at least one coordinate i with 'influence' at least Omega(log n n).

Modern computer system designers must consider many more factors than raw performance of individual applications.

Two very different applications that use a render-capture paradigm will be presented; the first is a projector-camera system and the second uses a print-scan process.

We study the following model for mobile wireless networks. At time 0, nodes are distributed as a Poisson point process with intensity \lambda over R^2.

There is an increasing demand for the analysis of large amounts of data of many different kinds. Often the data is equipped with a notion of distance, reflecting notions of similarity of the data.

Creating Game-changing Speed-ups in Compelling Applications using Design Patterns Kurt Keutzer Professor, UC Berkeley ParLab We believe that the key to the design of parallel programs is software

The spoken term discovery task takes speech as input and identifies terms of possible interest.

The MIT EECS department has long been a source of interdisciplinary research, however in recent years, the number of faculty members who have expanded their research portfolios to include aspects

Let S_1,...,S_n be subsets of {1,...n}. A quarter century ago I showed that there is a two-coloring of the vertices so that all sets have discrepancy at most K\sqrt{n}, K an absolute constant.

In this talk I explore the ongoing global crisis of language extinction, and argue that it leads to intellectual impoverishment in all fields of science and culture.

We consider the problem of revenue-optimal dynamic mechanism design in settings where agents' types evolve over time as a function of their (both public and private) experience with items that are

When a complex production system fails or just behaves badly, the debugging technique of first resort is to examine system logs or other passively gathered signals that might hold important clues

In the literature, asymptotic studies of multi-hop wireless network capacity often consider only centralized and deterministic TDMA (time-division multi-access) coordination schemes.

Viral marketing is a form of peer-to-peer communication in which individuals are encouraged to pass on promotional messages within their social networks.

The first part of the talk will present and overview of our machine learning endeavors within the scope of Computational Pathology: (i) generating a gold standard based on clinical labeling

We develop solution concepts for games with incomplete information which are robust to the private and strategic information held by the agents in the game.

There are two related and complementary approaches for studying the theoretical foundations of learning. One is probabilistic in nature and the other game-theoretic and adversarial.

Latent variable models represent hidden structure in observational data.

In this talk, I will present an approach for image registration based on discrete Markov Random Field optimization.

Building robust and efficient networked systems is a tedious and error-prone process.

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Extended Abstract Session -- Other Topics in NLP 1:45 Maider Lehr.

Extracting semantic relations among entities is an important first step in various tasks in Web mining and natural language processing such as information extraction, relation detection, and social

Today's datacenters run many complex and large-scale Web applications that are very difficult to manage.

Random inner product graphs form a special case of inhomogeneous random graphs.

We study random walks on the uniform spanning tree (UST) on Z^2.

Parallel computing platforms such as chip multi-processors (CMPs) and graphics processors (GPUs) have become ubiquitous.This explosion in the availability of parallel computing resources signals a

Extended Abstract Session -- SMT 11:30 Baskaran Sankaran, Ajeet Grewal and Anoop Sarkar. Incremental Decoding for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation 12:00 Ann Clifton and Anoop Sarkar.