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Censored Exploration and the Dark Pool Problem
The success and proliferation of dark pool stock exchanges have created challenging and interesting problems in algorithmic trading—in particular, the problem of...
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Technical Perspective: Learning to Act in Uncertain Environments
The problem of decision making in an uncertain environment arises in many diverse contexts. The key issue in effectively solving problems like this is known as...
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Toward Robotic Cars
Recent challenges organized by DARPA have induced a significant advance in technology for autopilots for cars; similar to those already used in aircraft and marine...
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Technical Perspective: New Bar Set For Intelligent Vehicles
Sebastian Thrun gives us a glimpse into the design and implementation of two winning DARPA grand challenge entries...
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Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics
Customer preferences for products are drifting over time. Product perception and popularity are constantly changing as new selection emerges. Similarly, customer...
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Creativity Helps Influence Prediction Precision
The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in machine learning and data mining, with significant advances in terms of...
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Using the Forest to See the Trees: Exploiting Context For Visual Object Detection and Localization
Recognizing objects in images is an active area of research in computer vision. However, most of the algorithms for detecting objects perform an exhaustive search...
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Technical Perspective: Seeing the Trees, the Forest, and Much More
Bristling with cameras, microphones, and other sensors, today's portable phones are nevertheless essentially deaf and...
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Post-Silicon Bug Localization For Processors Using IFRA
IFRA overcomes major challenges associated with a very expensive step in post-silicon validation of processors — pinpointing a bug location and the instruction...
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Technical Perspective: Want to Be a Bug Buster?
Microprocessor performance has increased exponentially. These chips with ever increasing complexity are not always fully functional on...
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Faster Dimension Reduction
Data represented geometrically in high-dimensional vector spaces can be found in many applications. The need to manipulate such data in huge corpora and to support...
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Technical Perspective: Strange Effects in High Dimension
In studying the genetic basis of a disease, it is now common to select a set of relevant genes G, and to measure how strongly...
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Structural Characterizations of Schema-Mapping Languages
Information integration is a key challenge faced by all major organizations, business and governmental ones alike. Two research...
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Technical Perspective: Schema Mappings: Rules For Mixing Data
When you search for products on Amazon.com, you are seeing results from thousands of vendor databases that were developed before Amazon existed. Did you ever wonder...
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Native Client: A Sandbox For Portable, -Untrusted X86 Native Code
Native Client is a sandbox for untrusted x86 native code. It aims to give browser-based applications the computational performance of native applications without...
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Technical Perspective: Native Client: A Clever Alternative
Google's Native Client is an intriguing new system that allows untrusted x86 binaries to run safely on bare metal.
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ThinSight: A Thin Form-Factor Interactive Surface Technology
ThinSight is a thin form-factor interactive surface technology based on optical sensors embedded inside a regular LCD. These augment the display with the ability...
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Technical Perspective: A Graphical Sense of Touch
One of the major innovations in computing was the invention of the graphical user interface at MIT, SRI, and Xerox PARC. The...
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Designing Plush Toys With a Computer
We introduce Plushie, an interactive system that allows nonprofessional users to design their own original plush toys. We successfully demonstrated that nonprofessional...
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