Collaboration With a Robotic Scrub Nurse
Surgeons use hand gestures and/or voice commands without interrupting the natural flow of a procedure.
Research and Advances
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The NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine builds on the key observation that most ray tracing algorithms can be implemented using a small set of programmable operations.
Technical Perspective: The Ray-Tracing Engine That Could
It has been an open question whether it is possible to build GPU-targeted high-performance software systems that are themselves programmable. "GPU Ray Tracing" shows how to achieve both programmability and high performance in such a system.
The Promise of Consumer Technologies in Emerging Markets
Employees in emerging markets find their own IT devices vital to job productivity and innovation.
Discriminative Learning with Latent Variables For Cluttered Indoor Scene Understanding
We address the problem of understanding an indoor scene from a single image in terms of recovering the room geometry (floor, ceiling, and walls) and furniture layout.
Techniques and Applications For Sentiment Analysis
The main applications and challenges of one of the hottest research areas in computer science.
Technical Perspective: Understanding Pictures of Rooms
The rich world is getting older, so we will see many efforts to build robots that can provide some in-home care for frail people. These robots will need computer programs that can see and understand rooms where people live.
Offline Management in Virtualized Environments
How to run virtual machines together with physical machines, especially when sharing computational resources.
Why Computer Talents Become Computer Hackers
Start with talent and skills driven by curiosity and hormones, constrained only by moral values and judgment.
Q&A: The Power of Distribution
Nancy Lynch talks about achieving consensus, developing algorithms, and mimicking biology in distributed systems.
Mobile Social Networking Applications
They deliver the right social service to the right user anytime, anyplace, without divulging personal data.
Exploration and Mapping with Autonomous Robot Teams
The MAGIC 2010 robot competition showed how well multi-robot teams can work with human teams in urban search.
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 understand how video quality affects user engagement and how to best invest their resources to optimize video quality.
Technical Perspective: Video Quality Assessment in the Age of Internet Video
With video delivery, it appears that once again "the Internet changes everything." In this changed environment, what measures of quality are most relevant, and how are they obtained from consumers no longer tethered to a single delivery service?
Symbolic Execution For Software Testing: Three Decades Later
The challenges — and great promise — of modern symbolic execution techniques, and the tools to help implement them.
Power Challenges May End the Multicore Era
Tthe microprocessor industry has shifted to multicore scaling as its principal strategy for continuing performance growth. However, while transistor count increases continue, the per-transistor speed and energy efficiency improvements have slowed dramatically.
New Approaches to Security and Availability For Cloud Data
Extending the data trust perimeter from the enterprise to the public cloud requires more than encryption.
Software techniques that tolerate latency variability are vital to building responsive large-scale Web services.
Technical Perspective: Is Dark Silicon Real?
The microprocessor chip R&D community has been well aware of the so-called "power wall" challenge for over a decade. The following work by Esmaeilzadeh et al. is a landmark paper that opens our eyes to the unrelenting power challenge we face in the multicore era.
Computer Security and the Modern Home
A framework for evaluating security risks associated with technologies used at home.
Large genomic databases with interactive access require new, layered abstractions, including separating "evidence" from "inference."
Human Mobility Characterization from Cellular Network Data
Anonymous location data from cellular phone networks sheds light on how people move around on a large scale.
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 from preceding frames.
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