This talk addresses how users find information on a web site and the related subject of how information is structured on a site. Included in this talk are interface aspects of navigation, technical concerns for naviga...
Universal Usability: What does it mean and why should I care?: Jonathan Lazar. This talk introduces the concept of universal usability, describing why people should care, how to design for universal usability, and why this is important for business. Universal usability includes user diversity, te...
User-Centered Design Processes for Web Sites: Jonathan Lazar. This talk, loosely based on the book I wrote titled "Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach", offers information on the design process for web sites. This talk addresses methods and techniques for user involvement, when involve...
Body shape can have interesting consequences and characterizing these shapes can have a significant impact on a number of industries not to mention your underwear! This talk will present the result of mischaracterized body shape and how they aff...
Human shape is one of the most personal and misunderstood forms with a host of uses! Anthropometry, the measurement of humans has been around for centuries. Recently 3D laser scanning has begun to be used as a method to characterize the entire s...
The CASA project is an NSF Engineering Research Center investigating the design and implementation of a dense network of low-power meteorological radars whose goal is to collaboratively and adaptively sense the lowest few kilometers of the earth...
Computer Ethics and Technology: Donald Gotterbarn . This talk focuses on computer ethics as it relates to the day to day activities of practicing computer professionals. The emphasis is on real world moral and legal issues for the practicing computer professionals and with a focus on how one resolves ...
New Protocols for Wireless Networks: Mohammad S. Obaidat. This talk presents some of our recent research results including new protocols for wireless networks. Among these, an adaptive MAC protocol for distributed wireless LANs that is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions. Accord...
Medical imaging technologies are exploding. It seems that each week new imaging modalities are announced along with medical breakthroughs utilizing this imagery. Most medical imagery involves volumetric imaging a fundamentally different method o...
Software Development: More Than Just Programming : Donald Gotterbarn . We are often surprised by the number of non-programming related issues that affect the professional’s efforts to develop quality software and web interfaces. Development efforts are constrained in a number of positive and negative ways. This ta...
Unmanaged Risk: Why Systems Don¿t Work: Donald Gotterbarn . The focus on software testing and risk analysis during software development has only had a limited effect in reducing software failures. This talk will present a new approach to the identification of software risk and reduce the rate of system failur...
New Protocols for Wireless Networks: Mohammad S. Obaidat. This talk presents some of our recent research results including new protocols for wireless networks. Among these, an adaptive MAC protocol for distributed wireless LANs that is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions. Accord...
The talk will survey the chain of advances that lead to Deep Blue's victory over Garry Kasparov in 1997. The early chess programs will be examined first leading to Richard Greenblatt's Mac Hack in the late 1960s.
The history of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer will be reviewed from it inception at CMU in 1986 to its defeat of Garry Kasparov in 1997. The talk will generally follow the material presented in "Deep Blue: An Artificial Intelligence Mil...
The general problem of visual search can be
shown to be computationally intractable in a formal complexity-theoretic sense,
yet visual search is widely involved in everyday perception and biological
systems manage to perform it remarkably wel...
Looking Back at Deep Blue: The IBM Chess Machine : Murray Campbell. It has been more than ten years since IBM's Deep
Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the then-reigning world chess champion, in an epic
six-game match that was closely watched by millions. This talk will present the
historical background th...
Making Meaning on the Web: Lynn Andrea Stein. The World Wide Web is increasingly a venue in which we conduct commerce, build relationships, and live out our lives. Underneath the
everyday activity of the web lurks another layer: computers
manipulating symbols and bits to create the i...
Recognition
of human actions from video sequences is a very popular in Computer Vision.
Since an action takes place in 3-D, and is projected on a sequence of 2-D
images, the projected 2-D motion may vary depending on the viewpoint of the
cam...
Robotics and Autonomous System: Michael Jenkin. Mobile robotic systems have
found a wide range of applications, from sensing/survey tasks in dangerous
environments, to environmental exploration, to carpet cleaning. This talk
considers the three fundamental tasks underlying mobile robots: sen...
Video Surveillance and Monitoring is
very active area of research in Computer Vision. However, most of the current
approaches assume that the observed scene is not crowded, and that reliable
tracks of objects are available over longer duratio...
The
concept of a cooperative multi-camera system, informally a ‘forest’ of sensors,
has recently received increasing attention from the research community. This
idea is of great practical relevance, since cameras typically have li...
Recently, computer vision has
gradually been making the transition away from understanding single images to
analyzing image sequences, or video understanding. Video understanding deals
with understanding video sequences, e.g., recognition of ...
Careers in Computing - How to Prepare and What to Expect: Dennis Frailey. Too many people concentrate on getting a job instead of preparing for a career. In a rapidly changing field like computing, this can lead to burnout and dissatisfaction. This talk addresses how one can prepare for a life-long career in co...
Incontrovertible is the enormous change in software engineering practice that has occurred over the past decades. The worldwide software industry now generates hundreds of billions of US dollars in revenue annually and continues to expand in sco...
With these early words, the heroine of the Harry Potter series
revealed her networking skills - skills that complemented her knack
for logical problem solvi...
Improving Software Development Cycle Time: Dennis Frailey. Being first to market is a critical factor for business success. Yet we often hear complaints about the poor quality of software that was rushed in order to meet a deadline. "Agile" methods of rapid software development have been touted in ...
Software Engineering - Best Practices: Dennis Frailey. How do you build software so good that lives can depend on it? What’s the difference between developing a program that works and developing a program that’s reliable and dependable? How would you manage a software project that requi...
Body shape can have interesting consequences and characterizing these shapes can have a significant impact on a number of industries not to mention your underwear! This talk will present the result of mischaracterized body shape and how they aff...
For nearly 10 years a number of 3D standards and de-facto specifications have been created to bring the experience of 3D computer graphics to the casual web surfer. These graphic standards have been wildly hyped, some of them ha...
Human shape is one of the most personal and misunderstood forms with a host of uses! Anthropometry, the measurement of humans has been around for centuries. Recently 3D laser scanning has begun to be used as a method to characterize the entire s...
Few people are better
qualified to talk about the use of computer graphics in advertising, feature
film, and television than lecturer Judson Rosebush. Profusely illustrated with
slides and videotapes, this insider's view...
Computer art is
entering its fifth decade, yet it remains ostracized from widespread,
mainstream critical review and acceptance. Why is this? Is the computer a new
medium or just another tool for the artist? Can a person who...
Global Eyes: Vibeke Sorensen. Digital media are increasingly global and interactive, building bridges between nature, people, and cultures. Given the rapid integration of physical and digital media, it is possible to see and engage our world in alternative ways. This talk will di...
New Minds: Vibeke Sorensen. There is a major increase in transdisciplinary activity in universities and research centres around the world. What is the role that art can play in dialog with science and computing, a...
Since antiquity,
humans have attempted to construct graphical models of their environs; some,
like calendars and maps, are static, others, like the zodiac, depict temporal
events. In the industrial era, as science undertook ...
Rosebush consolidates
over 10 years of experience on the Internet in this lecture designed to
entertain and inform audiences about the role of this new technology into our
society and our lives. Rosebush opens the lecture with a quick overvie...
Medical imaging technologies are exploding. It seems that each week new imaging modalities are announced along with medical breakthroughs utilizing this imagery. Most medical imagery involves volumetric imaging a fundamentally different method o...
Synthetic Characters in an Imperfect World : Vibeke Sorensen. People have been making representations of human beings for thousands of years in a wide range of media and artforms. With computers today, it is possible to create image representations that are more optically "perfect" than ever before. B...
With Internet 2 upon
us and video games combining the best of computer animation with real-time
interactive environments the future of media and technology appears endless.
But what, in practical business, technological, and...
The Rise of Social Media and Document Sharing on the Web: Rashmi Sinha. One of the interesting trends recently has been the rise of personal media sharing on the web. Photo sharing using sites such as Flickr, video sharing through YouTube. Such ease of sharing had largely bypassed office documents. Now, with the advent o...
Virtual Reality and Space: Michael Jenkin. Our perceptual system is not perfect and this makes it possible to create
compelling illusions of alternate realities. How can we use virtual reality
technologies to present compelling illusions of perception in outer space to
humans with...
Why Tagging is Replacing Categorization in Many Web- based Systems: Rashmi Sinha. For the earlier generation of websites, navigation within the site was primarily based on menus and submenus. Recently there has been a disenchantment with and a move away from strict hierarchical menus towards looser, user-driven social tagging syst...
An Attack Surface Metric: Jeannette Wing. We propose a metric to determine whether one version of a software
system is more secure than another with respect to the system's
attack surface. Intuitively, the larger the attack surface, the more
likely it is to be attack...
Technological and economic developments have made the Internet a viable platform for a new, "collaborative" modality of Internet-based computing (IC, for short). Within this modality, the owner of a large, typically compute-intensive, ...
Discrete-event simulation is commonly used to study the behavior of communication networks. However, devising meaningful simulation models for large-scale systems is difficult, and is a topic of considerable concern and debate. Problems include ...
The CASA project is an NSF Engineering Research Center investigating the design and implementation of a dense network of low-power meteorological radars whose goal is to collaboratively and adaptively sense the lowest few kilometers of the earth...
Optimizing compilers often need feedback from training runs of programs to determine the frequency of execution of different paths and the affinity between data elements. Currently static compilers rely on static feedback data, ie. data that is ...
Good programming and software engineering practices encourage the semantically-meaningful encapsulation of data into objects or data structures. These practices also encourage the design and implementation of relatively small, self contained, mo...
Although sustained petaflop performance for real applications is still some years away, many architecture trends are emerging that will shape how we will achieve that goal. We expect these systems to have millions of processor cores spread acros...
As multi-core processors
evolve, coherence traffic between cores is becoming problematic, both in terms
of performance and power. The negative effects of coherence (snoop) traffic can
be significantly mitigated through snoop filtering. Shield...
Compared to conventional
SRAM, embedded DRAM (eDRAM) offers power, bandwidth and density advantages for
large on-chip cache memories. However, eDRAM suffers from comparatively slower
access times than conventional SRAM arrays. To hide eDRAM a...
GridNexus: A Grid Services Scientific Workflow System: Ronald Vetter. This talk will introduce GridNexus, a graphical system for creating and executing scientific workflows in a grid environment that was created by faculty and students at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. GridNexus allows the user to asse...
The past 25 years have been a very exciting time for computer technology.
A lot of this excitement was due to new opportunities made available by
semiconductor technology: once basic uniprocessor functionality could be
Simulation has been used by software engineers for many years to study the functionality and performance of complex distributed system designs. For example, they are used to understand network protocols, tune distributed systems, and improve dis...
This talk draws on practical experiences in programming a wide variety of commercial parallel systems. It reviews different classifications of parallelism, discusses available hardware, and contrasts vector computing with parallel computing. In ...
A major issue that prevents the widespread adoption of parallel programming is the low productivity of parallel programmers. Typically writing a correct and efficient parallel program requires a more skilled programmer than writing the corr...
Digital media are becoming increasingly more common as a repository and representation of intellectual property, especially audio, images, and video. With this ubiquity come requirements for security (who may gain access the content?) and integr...
Rambling after all these years: Yale Patt. After more than 30 years of teaching, while at the same time having some success at research and consulting in the high-tech microprocessor area, I have acquired some opinions on education. If you let me, I would be happy to share some of them. This ...
Historically, technology has been the main driver
of computer performance. For many system generations, CMOS scaling has been
leveraged to increase clock speed and build increasingly complex
microarchitectures. As technology-driven
performa...
BlueGene/L (BG/L), developed through a partnership between IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), remains the world's largest system both in terms of scale with 212,992 processors and absolute performance with a peak rate of ...
The activity of modeling necessarily means developing abstractions; in doing so some information about the system of interest is lost. There is an art to abstraction---finding one that captures the essential system behavior while remaining compu...
This presentation focuses on the transition from an algorithm to a program. Algorithm analysis is a well-studied discipline, as is software development. However, at the interface between these two disciplines much can and does go wrong. In fact,...
Technological and economic developments have made the Internet a viable platform for a new, "collaborative" modality of Internet-based computing (IC, for short). Within this modality, the owner of a large, typically compute-intensive, ...
GridNexus: A Grid Services Scientific Workflow System: Ronald Vetter. This talk will introduce GridNexus, a graphical system for creating and executing scientific workflows in a grid environment that was created by faculty and students at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. GridNexus allows the user to asse...
As the electronic component of a car increases its strategic role in determining value added and market acceptance, the electronic design chain must be optimized in terms of efficiency and quality. Daimler-Chrysler executives expressed the domin...
In 2003, two land mark cases challenged the University of Michigan admissions policies, one focused on Law School admission and the other on undergraduate admissions. In Grutter v. Bollinger, the case focused on the Law School, the U. S. S...
Computer Ethics and Technology: Donald Gotterbarn . This talk focuses on computer ethics as it relates to the day to day activities of practicing computer professionals. The emphasis is on real world moral and legal issues for the practicing computer professionals and with a focus on how one resolves ...
It is clear to almost all observers that radically new approaches to networking and distributed systems are needed to build the the digital world of the future being envisioned by so many. In early 2004 the National Science Foundation (N...
This talk discusses research on gender differences in preferences and styles of play of computer games, and why these differences are important when using computer games as a motivational approach to interesting students in learning computer sci...
Gender, Lies and Videogames: The Truth About Females and Computing: Maria Klawe. This talk explores how girls and women differ from boys and men in their uses of and attitudes towards computers and computing. From playing computer games to pursuing computing careers, the participation of females tends to be very low compared to t...
Intellectual Property Management: Donald Costello. Anyone working in the field of Computer Science must develop attitudes and work habits that take into consideration the "value" of the software and systems they create. Computer Science students are taught the importance of testing and soft...
Making Meaning on the Web: Lynn Andrea Stein. The World Wide Web is increasingly a venue in which we conduct commerce, build relationships, and live out our lives. Underneath the
everyday activity of the web lurks another layer: computers
manipulating symbols and bits to create the i...
New Minds: Vibeke Sorensen. There is a major increase in transdisciplinary activity in universities and research centres around the world. What is the role that art can play in dialog with science and computing, a...
Online health communities provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances. Changes in the health care system coupled with increased use of the In...
Prime III: Electronic Voting in the 21st Century : Juan Gilbert. Subsequent to the debacle of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, it became abundantly clear that America’s archaic voting system was in dire need of a major overhaul. Consequently, Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines were p...
Reinventing Engineering Education: Building Olin College: Lynn Andrea Stein. Educational institutions evolve slowly. In 2000, the FW Olin Foundation launched a new college with the explicit intent of designing a new kind of engineering education from a clean slate. This talk will explore the key insights gained in...
Software Development: More Than Just Programming : Donald Gotterbarn . We are often surprised by the number of non-programming related issues that affect the professional’s efforts to develop quality software and web interfaces. Development efforts are constrained in a number of positive and negative ways. This ta...
The number of Bachelor degrees awarded in Computer Science in the United States reached an all-time high in 2002-03 (57,439), and the trend of women earning a decreasing percentage of the Bachelor degrees awarded ...
The Law of Cyberspace, Computers, and Technology: David Ellis. The presentation focuses on the emerging fields of
cyberspace and computer and technology law. Included are topics such as the law
of the Internet; protection of computer software and technology through
copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trad...
Unmanaged Risk: Why Systems Don¿t Work: Donald Gotterbarn . The focus on software testing and risk analysis during software development has only had a limited effect in reducing software failures. This talk will present a new approach to the identification of software risk and reduce the rate of system failur...
Rambling after all these years: Yale Patt. After more than 30 years of teaching, while at the same time having some success at research and consulting in the high-tech microprocessor area, I have acquired some opinions on education. If you let me, I would be happy to share some of them. This ...
The number of Bachelor degrees awarded in Computer Science in the United States reached an all-time high in 2002-03 (57,439), and the trend of women earning a decreasing percentage of the Bachelor degrees awarded ...
Intellectual Property Management: Donald Costello. Anyone working in the field of Computer Science must develop attitudes and work habits that take into consideration the "value" of the software and systems they create. Computer Science students are taught the importance of testing and soft...
Discrete-event simulation is commonly used to study the behavior of communication networks. However, devising meaningful simulation models for large-scale systems is difficult, and is a topic of considerable concern and debate. Problems include ...
The CASA project is an NSF Engineering Research Center investigating the design and implementation of a dense network of low-power meteorological radars whose goal is to collaboratively and adaptively sense the lowest few kilometers of the earth...
This talk provides a tutorial introduction to mobile wireless data networks. We begin with an overview of the evolution of wireless technologies and networks. We then begin a “bottom-up” study of wireless networks, starti...
The field of computer networking is 40 years old, arguably approaching middle age (at least in human years). In this time, networks have grown from research curiosities to become a key part of the global communications infrastructure. The overal...
New Protocols for Wireless Networks: Mohammad S. Obaidat. This talk presents some of our recent research results including new protocols for wireless networks. Among these, an adaptive MAC protocol for distributed wireless LANs that is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions. Accord...
The activity of modeling necessarily means developing abstractions; in doing so some information about the system of interest is lost. There is an art to abstraction---finding one that captures the essential system behavior while remaining compu...
We are in the early years of a revolution in wireless communications and the future holds many possibilities. Central to this revolution is the ability to dynamically program (and reprogram) radios, so that innovation in radios will come at the ...
Achievements and Remaining Challenges in Multimedia Data Modeling: M. Tamer Özsu . Multimedia research over the past decade has resulted in the development of multimedia data managers that have achieved a reasonable level of sophistication. It is possible now to organize images and video data efficiently, model them reasonably well...
Automatic Obligation Enforcement for Privacy Policy Compliance: Mukesh Mohania . It is becoming increasingly important for enterprises to have a well-defined privacy policy, to establish customer trust and to prevent misuse of privacy data and avoid litigation. Many standards exist for the publication of the privacy policy of an ...
Consistent Query Answering in Databases: Leopoldo Bertossi. We address the problems of characterizing and obtaining consistent information from inconsistent databases, i.e. databases that violate given integrity constraints. Our basic assumption departs from the everyday practice of database management ...
Dynamic Data Replication Using Aperidoc Updates in MANET: Sanjay Kumar Madria. Traditional
replication schemes are passive in nature, and rarely
consider the
characteristics of mobile ad hoc network environment. In
this talk, I will
present three dynamic data replication schemes for
mobile ad-hoc netw...
Data Management in Mobile Peer to Peer (M-P2P) systems needs
dynamic data management due to mobility and fragile wireless connection
connecting resource constraint devices. Traditional methods of data
management and services in mobile P2P...
require access to information “anytime, anywhere.” The extensive diversity in the range of information that is accessible to a user at any given time is also growing at a rapid rate. Furthermore, rapidly expanding technol...
Information for People: Laura Haas. Ordinary people have access to unprecedented volumes of information today. Researchers in the fields of information management (IM) and human-computer interaction (HCI) are reacting to this challenge from their own unique perspectives. Having access ...
Internet-Scale Data Distribution: Some Research Problems : M. Tamer Özsu . The increasing growths of the Internet, the Web and mobile environments have had a push-pull effect. On the one hand, these developments have increased the variety and scale of distributed applications. The data management requirements of these appli...
New Trends in Data Integration, Analytics, and BI: Mukesh Mohania . The growth of organizations invariably leads to creation of multiple isolated data sources which are totally disconnected from each other.
This leads to reduced efficiency and lack of complete knowledge of the enterprise and its customers whil...
With critical business information distributed across both structured and unstructured data sources, enterprises are increasingly realizing the importance of seamlessly integrating relevant structured and unstructured data. Existing information ...
In the following, we describe some of the problems discussed in this talk and some of the approaches to tackle them.
In an increasing number of computer applications a diversity of data sources that have to be int...
XML Change Managment Using Relational Model : Sanjay Kumar Madria. The eXtensible Markup Language
(XML) has become the industry standard for data exchanges due to its
simplicity, platform independence, and ease of processing. However, the
dramatic increase in the evolution of XML data available on the Internet...
Microfluidics-based biochips (or lab-on-chip) are
revolutionizing laboratory procedures in molecular biology, and leading to a
convergence of information technology with biochemistry and microelect...
Metamodeling Driven IP Reuse for System-on-chip Integration: Sandeep Shukla. This talk addresses an important problem in reusing intellectual properties (IPs) in the form of reusable design components. The problem is associated with fast and effective integration of reusable design components into a System-on-chip...
EDA has played a pivotal role in the past 25 years in making it possible to develop a new generation of electronic systems and circuits. However, innovation in design methodologies has slowed down significantly as we approach a limit in the comp...
EDA has played a pivotal role in the past 25 years in making it possible to develop a new generation of electronic systems and circuits. However, innovation in design methodologies has slowed down significantly as we approach a limit in the comp...
The Law of Cyberspace, Computers, and Technology: David Ellis. The presentation focuses on the emerging fields of
cyberspace and computer and technology law. Included are topics such as the law
of the Internet; protection of computer software and technology through
copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trad...
An industry view of computer science education and accreditation.: Dennis Frailey. Today's competitive companies rely on computing science and computer engineering programs to provide highly qualified staff for computer and software development assignments. Accreditation is one way to identify the programs that meet minimum cri...
Can Software Engineering Thrive in a Computer Science Department?: Dennis Frailey. It has been said that industry wants software engineers but computer science departments are producing future computer science faculty members. This talk focuses on what must happen to make software engineering the discipline that industry needs it t...
Computational Thinking: Jeannette Wing. My vision for the 21st Century: Computational thinking will be a fundamental skill used by everyone in the world. To reading, writing, and arithmetic, we should add computational thinking to every child's analytical ability. Computational t...
Wouldn't it be nice if every educated citizen (or at least every high school graduate) had as good an understanding of "computer science" as they do "chemistry," "biology," or "mathematics?" If c...
Designing A Small Footprint Curriculum for Computing: Lynn Andrea Stein. We describe an innovative computing curriculum that combines elements
of computer science, engineering and design. Although it is tailored
to the constraints we face at Olin college, it contains elements that
are applicable to the design of a ...
Most industrial computing positions require multidisciplinary skills which very few undergrads or grad students directly acquire during their academic career. There are about 40 computational science programs in the U.S. at present. This talk de...
This talk discusses research on gender differences in preferences and styles of play of computer games, and why these differences are important when using computer games as a motivational approach to interesting students in learning computer sci...
Gender, Lies and Videogames: The Truth About Females and Computing: Maria Klawe. This talk explores how girls and women differ from boys and men in their uses of and attitudes towards computers and computing. From playing computer games to pursuing computing careers, the participation of females tends to be very low compared to t...
Online health communities provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances. Changes in the health care system coupled with increased use of the In...
Radically Rethinking CS1: Lynn Andrea Stein. Perhaps the most fundamental idea in modern computer science is that
of interactive processes. Computation is embedded in a (physical or virtual) world; its role is to interact with that world to produce desired behavior. While von Neum...
Rambling after all these years: Yale Patt. After more than 30 years of teaching, while at the same time having some success at research and consulting in the high-tech microprocessor area, I have acquired some opinions on education. If you let me, I would be happy to share some of them. This ...
Reinventing Engineering Education: Building Olin College: Lynn Andrea Stein. Educational institutions evolve slowly. In 2000, the FW Olin Foundation launched a new college with the explicit intent of designing a new kind of engineering education from a clean slate. This talk will explore the key insights gained in...
Service-Learning: How HCI classes can help the community: Jonathan Lazar. Service learning is where course work relates to a community-based project in a way that students get hands-on experience and a community group benefits. In addition, students reflect on how their theory and practice relate, and how their w...
The Importance of the Freshman Course for Majors : Yale Patt. Now that I have published a textbook on the subject (Introduction to Computing Systems: from bits and gates to C and beyond, with Sanjay J. Patel, McGraw-Hill, second edition, 2004) all my credibility is at risk. Nonetheless, I push onward. I believe...
Wireless Networks and Pocket Computers for Everyday Classroom Use: Ronald Vetter. This talk will focus on an innovative project underway at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Several faculty members at UNCW have initiated "Project Numina: Innovative Integration of Media into Science and Mathematics Curricula.&quo...
The CASA project is an NSF Engineering Research Center investigating the design and implementation of a dense network of low-power meteorological radars whose goal is to collaboratively and adaptively sense the lowest few kilometers of the earth...
Event-driven programming has found pervasive acceptance, from high-performance servers to embedded systems, as an efficient method for interacting with a complex world. The fastest research Web servers are event-driven, as is th...
Metamodeling Driven IP Reuse for System-on-chip Integration: Sandeep Shukla. This talk addresses an important problem in reusing intellectual properties (IPs) in the form of reusable design components. The problem is associated with fast and effective integration of reusable design components into a System-on-chip...
Technological and economic developments have made the Internet a viable platform for a new, "collaborative" modality of Internet-based computing (IC, for short). Within this modality, the owner of a large, typically compute-intensive, ...
Microfluidics-based biochips (or lab-on-chip) are
revolutionizing laboratory procedures in molecular biology, and leading to a
convergence of information technology with biochemistry and microelect...
Beauty and the Beast: The Theory and Practice of Information Integration : Laura Haas. Information integration is becoming a critical problem for businesses and individuals alike. Data volumes are sky-rocketing, and new sources and types of information are proliferating. This talk briefly reviews some of the key research accompli...
Emerging Web Technologies: Ronald Vetter. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has developed several open recommendations, extending existing Internet standards, to enable wireless devices full access to the web and its information base. With the rapid introduction of new kinds of web browser...
