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Technical Perspective: Corralling Crowd Power
"Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside," introduces an exciting vision of using crowd workers to power an interactive system — here, a word processor —...
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Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside
This paper introduces architectural and interaction patterns for integrating crowdsourced human contributions directly into user interfaces.
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Technical Perspective: Virtual Reality in Your Living Room
The authors of IllumiRoom investigate what AR/VR could look like in a truly social environment — the living room.
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Illumiroom: Immersive Experiences Beyond the TV Screen
IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept system that surrounds a television with projected light, bringing video games, and film experiences out of the TV screen and into...
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Technical Perspective: Programming Multicore Computers
"Can Traditional Programming Bridge the Ninja Performance Gap for Parallel Computing Applications" advocates an appealing division of labor between a developer...
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Can Traditional Programming Bridge the Ninja Performance Gap For Parallel Computing Applications?
Current processor trends of integrating more cores with SIMD units have made it more to extract performance from applications. It is believed that traditional...
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Technical Perspective: Getting Consensus For Data Replication
The following paper is a breakthrough in which the authors offer a formula to calculate the probability of reading data that was not written by one of the K most...
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Quantifying Eventual Consistency with PBS
Eventual consistency is often "good enough" for practitioners given its latency and availability benefits. In this work, we explain this phenomenon and demonstrate...
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Technical Perspective: The Interplay of Neuroscience and Cryptography
An ideal scheme for password storage would enable a password with more than 20 bits of randomness to be input and output from the brain of a human being who is...
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Neuroscience Meets Cryptography: Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks
We present a defense against coercion attacks using the concept of implicit learning from cognitive psychology. We use a carefully crafted computer game to allow...
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Technical Perspective: Progress in Visual Categorization
Our visual system helps us carry out our daily business. Our eyes and brain help us by measuring shapes, trajectories, and distances in world around us, and by...
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Visual Object Detection with Deformable Part Models
We describe a state-of-the-art system for finding objects in cluttered images. Our system is based on deformable models that represent objects using local part...
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Technical Perspective: Circuit Placement Challenges
For a semiconductor circuit with billions of transistors, finding desired locations of circuit components is a challenging task that substantially impacts circuit...
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SimPL: An Algorithm For Placing VLSI Circuits
VLSI placement optimizes locations of circuit components so as to reduce interconnect. We propose an algorithm for large-scale placement that outperforms prior...
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Understanding the Impact of Video Quality on User Engagement
As Internet-based videos become mainstream, user expectation for high quality is constantly increasing. In this context, it is crucial for content providers to...
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Technical Perspective: Finding People in Depth
The following article by Shotton et al. describes a landmark computer vision system that takes a single depth image containing a person and automatically estimates...
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Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images
We propose a new method to quickly and accurately predict human pose — the 3-D positions of body joints — from a single depth image, without depending on information...
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Technical Perspective: Visualization, Understanding, and Design
Photographs capture the moment; paintings convey perception, impression, and feeling; illustrations tell stories. Computer graphics aims to enrich all these artistic...
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Illustrating How Mechanical Assemblies Work
How-things-work visualizations use a variety of visual techniques to depict the operation of complex mechanical assemblies. We present an automated approach for...
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