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Technical Perspective: Concerto For Violin and Markov Model
In the opening of Sibelius' Violin Concerto, a soloist plays delicately. The orchestra responds in kind. As...
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DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study
While a large body of work exists on DRAM in lab conditions, little has been reported on real DRAM failures in large production clusters. In this paper, we analyze...
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Technical Perspective: DRAM Errors in the Wild
In order to advance the field, knowledge of the types of memory errors at the system level, their frequencies, and conditions that exacerbate or are unrelated to...
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Privacy Integrated Queries: An Extensible Platform For Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis
Privacy Integrated Queries (PINQ) is an extensible data analysis platform designed to provide unconditional privacy guarantees for the records of the underlying...
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Technical Perspective: Programming With Differential Privacy
Government agencies worldwide release statistical information about population, education, and health, crime...
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The Emergence of Cross Channel Scripting
Lightweight, embedded Web servers are soon about to outnumber regular Internet Web servers. We reveal a series of attacks that target...
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Technical Persepctive: Attacks Target Web Server Logic and Prey on XCS Weaknesses
A system is secure only if the entire system is secure. While this may sound obvious, achieving total security throughout a system is rarely trivial when you consider...
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Toward Robotic Cars
Recent challenges organized by DARPA have induced a significant advance in technology for autopilots for cars; similar to those already used in aircraft and marine...
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Technical Perspective: New Bar Set For Intelligent Vehicles
Sebastian Thrun gives us a glimpse into the design and implementation of two winning DARPA grand challenge entries...
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Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics
Customer preferences for products are drifting over time. Product perception and popularity are constantly changing as new selection emerges. Similarly, customer...
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Creativity Helps Influence Prediction Precision
The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in machine learning and data mining, with significant advances in terms of...
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Using the Forest to See the Trees: Exploiting Context For Visual Object Detection and Localization
Recognizing objects in images is an active area of research in computer vision. However, most of the algorithms for detecting objects perform an exhaustive search...
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Technical Perspective: Seeing the Trees, the Forest, and Much More
Bristling with cameras, microphones, and other sensors, today's portable phones are nevertheless essentially deaf and...
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Structural Characterizations of Schema-Mapping Languages
Information integration is a key challenge faced by all major organizations, business and governmental ones alike. Two research...
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Technical Perspective: Schema Mappings: Rules For Mixing Data
When you search for products on Amazon.com, you are seeing results from thousands of vendor databases that were developed before Amazon existed. Did you ever wonder...
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ThinSight: A Thin Form-Factor Interactive Surface Technology
ThinSight is a thin form-factor interactive surface technology based on optical sensors embedded inside a regular LCD. These augment the display with the ability...
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Technical Perspective: A Graphical Sense of Touch
One of the major innovations in computing was the invention of the graphical user interface at MIT, SRI, and Xerox PARC. The...
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Predicting Structured Objects with Support Vector Machines
Machine Learning today offers a broad repertoire of methods for classification and regression. But what if we need to predict complex objects like trees, orderings...
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Technical Perspective: Machine Learning For Complex Predictions
Interest in machine learning can be traced back to the early days of computer science. Alan Turing himself conjectured that...
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