One of the outcomes of DARPA’s HPCS program has been the creation of three new high productivity languages: Chapel, Fortress, and X10. While these languages have introduced impro...
In this paper, we describe an interface consisting of a virtual showroom where a team of two highly realistic 3D agents presents product items in an entertaining and attractive wa...
Boris Brandherm, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizu...
The rapid development of large interactive wall displays has been accompanied by research on methods that allow people to interact with the display at a distance. The basic method...
We discuss the parallelization of algorithms for solving polynomial systems symbolically by way of triangular decompositions. We introduce a component-level parallelism for which ...
Java performance is far from being trivial to benchmark because it is affected by various factors such as the Java application, its input, the virtual machine, the garbage collect...