We propose the idea of an online, user submitted digital library of recreation trails. Digital libraries of trails offer advantages over paper guidebooks in that they are more acc...
It has been established that active learning is effective for learning complex, subjective query concepts for image retrieval. However, active learning has been applied in a conc...
Web application workloads are often characterized by a large number of unique read requests and a significant fraction of write requests. Hosting these applications drives the ne...
Searching in decentralized peer-to-peer networks is a challenging problem. In common applications such as Gnutella, searching is performed by randomly forwarding queries to all pee...
Entanglement is an essential resource for quantum communication and quantum computation, similar to shared random bits in the classical world. Entanglement distillation extracts n...