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Technical Perspective: Visualization, Understanding, and Design
Photographs capture the moment; paintings convey perception, impression, and feeling; illustrations tell stories. Computer graphics aims to enrich all these artistic...
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Illustrating How Mechanical Assemblies Work
How-things-work visualizations use a variety of visual techniques to depict the operation of complex mechanical assemblies. We present an automated approach for...
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Technical Perspective: Making Browser Extensions Secure
Vulnerabilities in browsers and their extensions have become the primary venue through which cyber criminals compromise the security...
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Vetting Browser Extensions For Security Vulnerabilities with VEX
The browser has become the de facto platform for everyday computation and a popular target for attackers of computer systems. Among the many potential attacks that...
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Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets
Dremel is a scalable, interactive ad hoc query system for analysis of read-only nested data. By combining multilevel execution trees and columnar data layout, it...
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Technical Perspective: Data Analysis at Astonishing Speed
The importance of data analysis has never been clearer. Globe-spanning scientific collaborations are exploring...
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Technical Perspective: Complex Financial Products: Caveat Emptor
CDOs are examples of financial derivatives, with a value that depends on the underlying assets with which they are linked. These kinds of complex financial products...
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Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products
Securitization of cash flows using financial derivatives transformed the financial industry over the last three decades. Derivatives...
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Liability Issues in Software Engineering: The Use of Formal Methods to Reduce Legal Uncertainties
This paper reports on the results of a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with the aim to put forward a set of methods and tools...
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Technical Perspective: Liability Issues in Software Engineering
The paper by LeMétayer et al. addresses one technical issue in a large and serious problem in the production...
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The Informatics Philharmonic
A system for musical accompaniment is presented in which a computer-driven orchestra follows and learns from a soloist in a concerto-like setting. The system's...
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Technical Perspective: Concerto For Violin and Markov Model
In the opening of Sibelius' Violin Concerto, a soloist plays delicately. The orchestra responds in kind. As...
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The Emergence of Cross Channel Scripting
Lightweight, embedded Web servers are soon about to outnumber regular Internet Web servers. We reveal a series of attacks that target...
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Technical Persepctive: Attacks Target Web Server Logic and Prey on XCS Weaknesses
A system is secure only if the entire system is secure. While this may sound obvious, achieving total security throughout a system is rarely trivial when you consider...
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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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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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Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion
We all receive spam advertisements, but few of us have encountered a person who admits to following through on an offer and making a purchase. And yet, the relentlessness...
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