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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
You are where you tweet: a content-based approach to geo-locating twitter users
We propose and evaluate a probabilistic framework for estimating a Twitter user’s city-level location based purely on the content of the user’s tweets, even in the absence of ...
Zhiyuan Cheng, James Caverlee, Kyumin Lee
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Roomquake: embedding dynamic phenomena within the physical space of an elementary school classroom
Authentic practice in science requires access to phenomena. In this paper, we introduce RoomQuake, an application designed to foster the growth of a community of learning around s...
Tom Moher, Syeda Hussain, Tim Halter, Debi Kilb
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Non-Local Box Complexity and Secure Function Evaluation
ABSTRACT. A non-local box is an abstract device into which Alice and Bob input bits x and y respectively and receive outputs a and b respectively, where a, b are uniformly distribu...
Marc Kaplan, Iordanis Kerenidis, Sophie Laplante, ...
APVIS
2009
13 years 10 months ago
Optimized data transfer for time-dependent, GPU-based glyphs
Particle-based simulations are a popular tool for researchers in various sciences. In combination with the availability of ever larger COTS clusters and the consequently increasin...
Sebastian Grottel, Guido Reina, Thomas Ertl
CGF
2008
81views more  CGF 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Lagrangian Visualization of Flow-Embedded Surface Structures
The powerful yet conceptually simple notions of Finite-Time Lyapunov Exponent (FTLE) and Lagrangian Coherent Structures provide a powerful framework for the analysis and visualiza...
Christoph Garth, Alexander Wiebel, Xavier Tricoche...