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AROBOTS
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
The Inchworm Robot: A Multi-Functional System
We wish for robots to manipulate objects and move flexibly in three-dimensional spaces. We describe a robot that can move on a web of surfaces oriented around arbitrary directions ...
Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus
JSA
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Evaluation and optimization of a peer-to-peer video-on-demand system
Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with internet users. However, VoD is costly due to the load placed on video servers. Peer-to-peer (P2P) techniques are an approach to...
Bin Cheng, Xiuzheng Liu, Zheng Zhang, Hai Jin, Lex...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Pottering: a design-oriented investigation
In this paper we examine a ubiquitous yet overlooked aspect of home-life, pottering. The Oxford English Dictionary defines pottering as "To occupy oneself in an ineffectual o...
Susan Wyche, Alex S. Taylor, Joseph Kaye
ACSAC
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
.NET Security: Lessons Learned and Missed from Java
Many systems execute untrusted programs in virtual machines (VMs) to limit their access to system resources. Sun introduced the Java VM in 1995, primarily intended as a lightweigh...
Nathanael Paul, David Evans
CIS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
BARI: A Distributed Key Management Approach for Wireless Body Area Networks
—In recent years, use of sensors to measure the biometrics and movements of human body have resulted in the design of wireless body area networks (WBAN). Although WBANs consist o...
Syed Muhammad Khaliq-ur-rehman Raazi, Heejo Lee, S...