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WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Unsupervised learning of soft patterns for generating definitions from online news
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
SHOCK: communicating with computational messages and automatic private profiles
A computationally enhanced message contains some embedded programmatic components that are interpreted and executed automatically upon receipt. Unlike ordinary text email or insta...
Rajan M. Lukose, Eytan Adar, Joshua R. Tyler, Caes...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
UbiGreen: investigating a mobile tool for tracking and supporting green transportation habits
The greatest contributor of CO2 emissions in the average American household is personal transportation. Because transportation is inherently a mobile activity, mobile devices are ...
Jon Froehlich, Tawanna Dillahunt, Predrag V. Klasn...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Towards systematic usability verification
Although usability is the core aspect of the whole HCI research field, it still waits for its economic breakthrough. There are some corporations that are famous for their usable p...
Jan Borchers, Jonathan Diehl, Markus Jordans, Max ...
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Brief announcement: global consistency can be easier than point-to-point communication
Global consistency or Byzantine Agreement (BA) and reliable point-to-point communication are two of the most important and well-studied problems in distributed computing. Informal...
Prasant Gopal, Anuj Gupta, Pranav K. Vasishta, Piy...