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SOUPS
2010
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Folk models of home computer security
Home computer systems are frequently insecure because they are administered by untrained, unskilled users. The rise of botnets has amplified this problem; attackers can compromis...
Rick Wash
ICAD
2004
15 years 1 months ago
The Importance of Interaction in Sonification
This paper argues for a special focus on the use of dynamic human interaction to explore datasets while they are being transformed into sound. We describe why this is a special ca...
Andy Hunt, Thomas Hermann
CORR
2011
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
I Don't Want to Think About it Now:Decision Theory With Costly Computation
Computation plays a major role in decision making. Even if an agent is willing to ascribe a probability to all states and a utility to all outcomes, and maximize expected utility,...
Joseph Y. Halpern, Rafael Pass
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NIPS
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Weighted Sums of Random Kitchen Sinks: Replacing minimization with randomization in learning
Randomized neural networks are immortalized in this well-known AI Koan: In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What a...
Ali Rahimi, Benjamin Recht
PERCOM
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A Letter Soup for the Quality of Information in Sensor Networks
—In this paper, an information grouping paradigm for QoI in sensor networks is introduced. First, a definition of QoI is presented by analyzing the ITU’s definition of QoS. T...
Chatschik Bisdikian, Joel W. Branch, Kin K. Leung,...