Parallel programs are difficult to write, test, and debug. This thesis explores how programmers build mental models about parallel programs, and demonstrates, through user evaluat...
Using relevance feedback can significantly improve (ad hoc) retrieval effectiveness. Yet, if little feedback is available, effectively exploiting it is a challenge. To that end,...
Sensornets are being widely proposed as a solution technology in a wide number of applications, e.g. health care. As part of this work some key challenges for the safety and senso...
We demonstrate the merits of using inter-document similarities for federated search. Specifically, we study a resultsmerging method that utilizes information induced from cluster...
- Real-time speaker verification, with speech acquired using the NIST Mk-III microphone array and an autodirective beamforming algorithm, is demonstrated. The software and hardware...
Gang Mei, Roger Xu, Debang Lao, Chiman Kwan, Vince...