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Over the last decade, feature point descriptors such as SIFT and similar methods have become indispensable tools in the computer vision community.

The Faculty Summit 2011 Design Expo showcases the best student design solutions related to this yearΓÇÖs theme: ΓÇ£Get Connected and Stay Connected.ΓÇ¥ Participating schools are University of

Roger Barga chairs this session at Faculty Summit 2011, which includes the following presentations.

Sumit Basu of Microsoft Research presents this tutorial at Faculty Summit 2011.

We present a coverage metric targeted at shared memory concurrent programs: the Location Pairs (LP) coverage metric.

Jan Vitek chairs this session at Faculty Summit 2011, which includes the following presentations.

Medium access control (MAC) resolves contention among simultaneously transmitting wireless nodes so as to utilize the wireless medium efficiently while mitigating interference.To be implementable

This is the second of two tutorial sessions about the Kinect for Windows SDK.

Kristin Tolle chairs this panel at Faculty Summit 2011.

Over the past decade the cryptographic research community has made impressive progress in developing new cryptographic protocols.

Rick Benge chairs this session at Faculty Summit 2011, which includes the following presentations.

This is the first of two tutorial sessions about the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK).

Although computer vision continues to be a formidable computing challenge, vision techniques are maturing rapidly and finding their way into many applicationsΓÇöincluding natural user interfaces

Dennis Gannon chairs this keynote by Lili Cheng, Microsoft Research, at Faculty Summit 2011.

The famous Leftover Hash Lemma (LHL) states that (almost) universal hash functions are good randomness extractors.

Mike Barnett chairs this session at Faculty Summit 2011, which includes the following presentations.

Kristin Lauter chairs this session at Faculty Summit 2011, which includes the following presentations.

We present HIBE and ABE schemes which are ``unbounded' in the sense that the public parameters do not impose additional limitations on the functionality of the systems.

In this session at Faculty Summit 2011, Anoop Gupta describes the Kinect for Windows SDK, provides an overview of its functionality and applications, and introduces how you can get started

Donald Brinkman chairs this session at Faculty Summit 2011, which includes the following presentations.

Arjmand Samuel chairs this session at Faculty Summit 2011, which includes the following presentations.

Jane Prey chairs this session at Faculty Summit 2011, which includes the following speakers: Maureen Biggers, Indiana University; Ann Quiroz Gates, University of Texas at El Paso; Ed Lazowska

Software clones are repeated fragments of code. They arise, for example, when one uses a copy-paste programming style and they create problems for software maintenance, clarity, and ownership.

We present the first protocol for secure two-party computation that allows a client and a server to evaluate an arbitrary function f with an amortized poly-logarithmic computational overhead over

In this talk, I will set forth a general approach to many of the major problems in Machine Learning, including classification, regression and clustering, based on ideas from spectral graph theory.

In sound field synthesis, an ensemble of elementary sound sources is driven such that a sound field with specific desired physical properties evolves over an extended region.

There are many different notions of information-theoretic entropy and its computational analogues. The right notion and a toolbox of lemmas can make for beautifully simple proofs.

Senior VP Rick Rashid presents awards to 8 new Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows at Faculty Summit 2011.

Exploring unfamiliar APIs is often difficult and time-consuming as well as being a distraction from the flow of writing code.

With their vast popularity and singular ability to engage young people, digital games have been hailed as a new paradigm for education.