Recent convergence between low-cost technology, artform and political discourse presents a new design space for enabling public participation and expression. We explore non-expert...
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...
Early speech retrieval experiments focused on news broadcasts, for which adequate Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) accuracy could be obtained. Like newspapers, news broadcasts a...
Synchronous dataflow (SDF) has been successfully used in design tools for system-level simulation of wireless communication systems. Modern wireless communication standards involv...
Many applications require protection of secret or sensitive information, from sensor nodes and embedded applications to large distributed systems. The confidentiality of data can b...