We revisit a problem introduced by Bharat and Broder almost a decade ago: how to sample random pages from the corpus of documents indexed by a search engine, using only the search...
A probabilistically checkable debate system (PCDS) for a language L consists of a probabilisticpolynomial-time veri er V and a debate between Player 1, who claims that the input x ...
Anne Condon, Joan Feigenbaum, Carsten Lund, Peter ...
Background: Data generated using `omics' technologies are characterized by high dimensionality, where the number of features measured per subject vastly exceeds the number of...
Yu Guo, Armin Graber, Robert N. McBurney, Raji Bal...
We show that the hit-and-run random walk mixes rapidly starting from any interior point of a convex body. This is the first random walk known to have this property. In contrast, t...
How do you tell a computer from a human? The situation arises often on the Internet, when online polls are conducted, accounts are requested, undesired email is received, and chat...
Patrice Y. Simard, Richard Szeliski, Josh Benaloh,...