Much thinking about digital cities is in terms of community groups. Yet, the world is composed of social networks and not of groups. This paper traces how communities have changed ...
The NVIDIA® OptiX™ ray tracing engine is a programmable system designed for NVIDIA GPUs and other highly parallel architectures. The OptiX engine builds on the key observation ...
Steven G. Parker, James Bigler, Andreas Dietrich, ...
This paper describes architecture and implementation of the ULTRAVIS system, a pure software solution for versatile and fast volume rendering. It provides perspective raycasting, ...
Database systems support recovery, providing high database availability. However, database applications may lose work because of a server failure. In particular, if a database serv...
Roger S. Barga, David B. Lomet, Thomas Baby, Sanja...
“Inhabited Television” combines multiuser virtual environments with television, so that online audience-members can participate in TV shows staged in a virtual world. It is pr...
Chris Greenhalgh, John Bowers, Graham Walker, John...