In sponsored search, a number of advertising slots is available on a search results page, and have to be allocated among a set of advertisers competing to display an ad on the pag...
This paper investigates the role of online resources in problem solving. We look specifically at how programmers--an exemplar form of knowledge workers--opportunistically interlea...
Joel Brandt, Philip J. Guo, Joel Lewenstein, Mira ...
For the majority of blind people, walking in unknown places is a very difficult, or even impossible, task to perform, when without help. The adoption of the white cane is the main...
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) and chip multiprocessing (CMP) both allow a chip to achieve greater throughput, but their relative energy-efficiency and thermal properties are s...
Yingmin Li, David Brooks, Zhigang Hu, Kevin Skadro...
In this paper, we identify a new problem in wireless sensor networks, distance sensitive service discovery, where nearby or closest service selection guarantee is expected. We pro...