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CHI
2003
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Women go with the (optical) flow
Previous research reported interesting gender effects involving specific benefits for females navigating with wider fields of view on large displays. However, it was not clear wha...
Desney S. Tan, Mary Czerwinski, George G. Robertso...
DAMON
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Join processing for flash SSDs: remembering past lessons
Flash solid state drives (SSDs) provide an attractive alternative to traditional magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs) for DBMS applications. Naturally there is substantial interest in...
Jaeyoung Do, Jignesh M. Patel
WOWMOM
2009
ACM
146views Multimedia» more  WOWMOM 2009»
15 years 7 months ago
When opportunity proceeds from autonomy: A tour-based architecture for disconnected mobile sensors
We consider the case of sparse mobile sensors deployed to implement missions in challenging environments. This paper explores a notion of tour networks that is well suited to circ...
Michel Charpentier, Radim Bartos, Swapnil Bhatia
ICRA
2008
IEEE
182views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
A body joint improves vertical to horizontal transitions of a wall-climbing robot
— Several recently-designed robots are able to scale steep surfaces using animal-inspired strategies for foot attachment and leg kinematics. These designs could be valuable for r...
Kathryn A. Daltorio, Timothy C. Witushynsky, Grego...
SASP
2008
IEEE
162views Hardware» more  SASP 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Accelerating Compute-Intensive Applications with GPUs and FPGAs
—Accelerators are special purpose processors designed to speed up compute-intensive sections of applications. Two extreme endpoints in the spectrum of possible accelerators are F...
Shuai Che, Jie Li, Jeremy W. Sheaffer, Kevin Skadr...