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While the performance opportunities of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for high-volume query processing are well-known, system makers still have to compromise between desired query

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The class of modern datacenters hosting large-scale Internet services such as web-search, mail, and social networking has gained significant momentum in todayΓÇÖs computing environments.

Despite decades of efforts to improve authentication, the world still relies heavily on secrets chosen (and memorized) by humans: passwords, PINs, personal knowledge questions and the occasional

Recent trends in science have made computational capabilities an essential part of scientific discovery. This is often referred to as enhanced scientific discovery, or eScience.

Variable Focus Video: Reconstructing Depth and Video for Dynamic Scenes. Nitesh Shroff, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Rama Chellappa, Yuichi Taguchi, Oncel Tuzel, and Amit Agrawal.

Nondeterminism is a key complication in programming multicore systems.

Diagnosing performance problems in distributed systems is very time consuming and difficult.

Paper Talk: Flutter Shutter Video Camera for Compressive Sensing of Videos. Jason Holloway, Ashok Veeraraghavan, and Aswin Sankaranarayanan.

This video from Open Data for Open Science 2012: DevelopersΓÇÖ Training for Environmental Research includes the following presentations.

Paper Talk: Diffuse Structured Light. Shree Nayar and Mohit Gupta. Paper Talk: Fast Reactive Control for Illumination through Rain and Snow.

Have you ever tried to talk to a young child on the phone for more than five minutes?

This video from Open Data for Open Science 2012: DevelopersΓÇÖ Training for Environmental Research includes the following presentations.

Lossy Trapdoor Functions (LTFs) were introduced by Peikert and Waters in STOC '08, and since that time they have become an extremely useful cryptographic primitive.

Despite the incredible market penetration of smartphones and exponential growth of the app market, utility of smartphones has been and will remain severely limited by the battery life.

Programming languages have long had to carefully balance between human usability and computational efficiency.

String-related defects are among the most prevalent in modern software development.

The widening gap between memory and storage is limiting the performance of many applications.

A decision maker needs predictions about the realization of a repeated experi- ment in each period.

This video from Open Data for Open Science 2012: DevelopersΓÇÖ Training for Environmental Research includes the following presentations.

Datacenters are a significant capital expense for many enterprises. Yet, they are difficult to manage and are hard to design and maintain.

Data analytics has become an extremely important and challenging problem in disciplines like computer science, biology, and medicine.

The commercial Web depends on combining content, especially advertisements, from sites that do not trust one another.

Facts: Cloud infrastructures bear an ever-increasing responsibility for storing and maintaining massive volumes of data for different types of data-intensive applications.

Paper Talk: Fourier Slice Superresolution in Plenoptic Cameras. Fernando Pérez, Alejandro Pérez, Manuel Rodriguez, and Eduardo Magdaleno.

Even though modern retrieval systems typically use a multitude of features to rank documents, the backbone for search ranking is usually the standard tf.idf retrieval models.

Modern data centers can consist of hundreds of thousands of servers and millions of virtualized end hosts.

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This video from Open Data for Open Science 2012: DevelopersΓÇÖ Training for Environmental Research includes the following lightning talks as well as the event's closing remarks.

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