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CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Conversation clusters: grouping conversation topics through human-computer dialog
Conversation Clusters explores the use of visualization to highlight salient moments of live conversation while archiving a meeting. Cheaper storage and easy access to recording d...
Tony Bergstrom, Karrie Karahalios
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
221views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Virtualized games for teaching about distributed systems
Complex distributed systems are increasingly important in modern computer science, yet many undergraduate curricula do not give students the opportunity to develop the skill sets ...
Joel Wein, Kirill Kourtchikov, Yan Cheng, Ron Guti...
EUROCRYPT
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Verifiable Random Functions from Identity-Based Key Encapsulation
We propose a methodology to construct verifiable random functions from a class of identity based key encapsulation mechanisms (IB-KEM) that we call VRF suitable. Informally, an IB-...
Michel Abdalla, Dario Catalano, Dario Fiore
KDD
2008
ACM
115views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
15 years 10 months ago
Topical query decomposition
We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
KDD
2002
ACM
169views Data Mining» more  KDD 2002»
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
Thorsten Joachims