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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Desiring to be in touch in a changing communications landscape: attitudes of older adults
This paper offers an exploration of the attitudes of older adults to keeping in touch with people who are important to them. We present findings from three focus groups with peopl...
Abigail Sellen, Richard H. R. Harper, Siân E...
ICDCN
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Tracking Dynamics Using Sensor Networks: Some Recurring Themes
Abstract. Much of the data consumed today is dynamic, typically gathered from distributed sources including sensors, and used in real-time monitoring and decision making applicatio...
Krithi Ramamritham
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A pragmatic path toward endowing virtually-embodied AIs with human-level linguistic capability
— Current work is described wherein simplified versions of the Novamente Cognition Engine (NCE) are being used to control virtual agents in virtual worlds such as game engines an...
Ben Goertzel
ICMENS
2003
IEEE
105views Hardware» more  ICMENS 2003»
14 years 29 days ago
Ultrasonic/Sonic Sampler and Sensor Platform for In-Situ Planetary Exploration
The search for existing or past life in the Universe is one of the most important objectives of NASA’s mission. In support of this objective, an ultrasonic/sonic mechanism is cu...
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Stewart Sherrit, Xiaoqi Bao, Zen...
CSEE
2001
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Systems Failures
Software Systems permeate just about every aspect of life throughout developed and industrialised nations today. When failures arise, the aftermath is highly complicated because t...
John Donaldson, John Jenkins