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Technical Perspective: Sora Promises Lasting Impact

The objective of Sora is to build a software defined radio that combines the performance and fidelity of hardware...

Nonparametric Belief Propagation
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Nonparametric Belief Propagation

Probabilistic graphical models and algorithms for approximate inference have proven to be powerful tools in a wide range of applications in statistics and AI. However...

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Technical Perspective: Belief Propagation

Nearly every modern tracking system is based on the seminal work of Rudolf Kalman who developed the optimal...

Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines
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Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines

Virtual machine monitors are a popular platform for Internet hosting centers and cloud-based compute services. But main memory is not amenable to multiplexed hardware...

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Technical Perspective: A VM 'Engine' That Makes a Difference

The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in server virtualization. Diwaker Gupta et al. present a novel approach for significantly improving the efficiency of...

Censored Exploration and the Dark Pool Problem
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Censored Exploration and the Dark Pool Problem

The success and proliferation of dark pool stock exchanges have created challenging and interesting problems in algorithmic trading—in particular, the problem of...

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Technical Perspective: Learning to Act in Uncertain Environments

The problem of decision making in an uncertain environment arises in many diverse contexts. The key issue in effectively solving problems like this is known as...

Toward Robotic Cars
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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...

Using the Forest to See the Trees
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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...

Structural Characterizations of Schema-Mapping Languages
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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...

Designing Plush Toys With a Computer
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Designing Plush Toys With a Computer

We introduce Plushie, an interactive system that allows nonprofessional users to design their own original plush toys. We successfully demonstrated that nonprofessional...

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Technical Perspective: Design Tools For the Rest of Us

There are many who believe we are on the verge of the biggest change in the way products are made since the Industrial...

Optimistic Parallelism Requires Abstractions
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Optimistic Parallelism Requires Abstractions

Writing software for multicore processors is greatly simplified if we could automatically parallelize sequential programs. Although auto-parallelization has been...

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Technical Perspective: Abstraction For Parallelism

Looking for some new insight into an old problem? The  familiar problem of writing parallel applications and a...

Statistical Analysis of Circuit Timing Using Majorization
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Statistical Analysis of Circuit Timing Using Majorization

Future miniaturization of silicon transistors following Moore's Law may be in jeopardy as it becomes harder to precisely define the behavior and shape of nanoscale...

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Technical Perspective: Where the Chips May Fall

The traditional approach to circuit design has been to build chips that work correctly at extreme-case process...

Apprenticeship Learning For Helicopter Control
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Apprenticeship Learning For Helicopter Control

Autonomous helicopter flight is widely regarded to be a highly challenging control problem. As helicopters are highly unstable and exhibit complicated dynamical...
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