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Questioning Naturalism in 3D User Interfaces
Three-dimensional user interfaces are uniquely able to achieve superior interaction fidelity, and this naturalism can be a huge advantage.
Technical Perspective: SQL on an Encrypted Database
There is some risk in trusting the cloud providers with sensitive data. Why not encrypt the data stored in cloud services?
Technical Perspective: Innovative Interaction: From Concept to the Wild
The history of the relationship between writing systems and technology is as long as it is varied. Likewise, the challenge of entering text using portable gadgets has a long history.
CryptDB: Processing Queries on an Encrypted Database
An ideal solution to satisfying the dual goals of protecting data confidentiality and running computations is to enable a server to compute over encrypted data, without the server ever decrypting the data to plaintext.
The Word-Gesture Keyboard: Reimagining Keyboard Interaction
As computing technologies expanded beyond the confines of the desktop, the need for effective text entry methods alternative to the ubiquitous desktop keyboards has inspired both academic researchers and the information technology industry.
Self-Adaptive Software Needs Quantitative Verification at Runtime
Continually verify self-adaptation decisions taken by critical software in response to changes in the operating environment.
Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe talks about increasing the number of women who study computer science.
The Loss of Location Privacy in the Cellular Age
How to have the best of location-based services while avoiding the growing threat to personal privacy.
Using real event data to X-ray business processes helps ensure conformance between design and reality.
To Be or Not To Be Cited in Computer Science
Traditional bias toward journals in citation databases diminishes the perceived value of conference papers and their authors.
Spreadsheet Data Manipulation Using Examples
Millions of computer end users need to perform tasks over large spreadsheet data, yet lack the programming knowledge to do such tasks automatically. We present a methodology that allows end users to automate such repetitive tasks.
Continuity and Robustness of Programs
Computer scientists have long believed that software is different from physical systems in one fundamental way: while the latter have continuous dynamics, the former do not. In this paper, we argue that notions of continuity from mathematical analysis are relevant and interesting even for software.
Technical Perspective: Example-Driven Program Synthesis For End-User Programming
As information technology has come to permeate our society, broader classes of users have developed the need for more sophisticated data manipulation and processing. The following paper focuses on an important emerging area — end user programming.
Technical Perspective: Proving Programs Continuous
Proving a program's correctness is usually an all-or-nothing game.
Looking Back and Looking Forward: Power, Performance, and Upheaval
The past 10 years have delivered two significant revolutions. Microprocessor design has been transformed — leading to multicore processors. And an entirely new software landscape has emerged — revolutionizing how software is deployed, is sold, and interacts with hardware.
Intrinsic Robustness of the Price of Anarchy
The price of anarchy, defined as the ratio of the worst-case objective function value of a Nash equilibrium of a game and that of an optimal outcome, quantifies the inefficiency of selfish behavior.
A searchable meta-graph can connect even troublesome house elves and other supernatural beings to scholarly folk categories.
Why On-Chip Cache Coherence Is Here to Stay
On-chip hardware coherence can scale gracefully as the number of cores increases.
Large-Scale Complex IT Systems
The reductionism behind today's software-engineering methods breaks down in the face of systems complexity.
A novel paradigm for programming reactive systems centered on naturally specified modular behavior.
Technical Perspective: For Better or Worse, Benchmarks Shape a Field
Like other IT fields, computer architects initially reported incomparable results. We quickly saw the folly of this approach. We then went through a sequence of performance metrics. When a field has good benchmarks, we settle debates and the field makes rapid progress.
Technical Perspective: Why Study the Price of Anarchy?
In 1999, Elias Koutsoupias and Christos Papadimitriou initiated the study of "How much worse off are we due to selfishness?" They compared the worst case pure Nash equilibria to the optimal solution. This ratio was later called the price of anarchy.
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