Talking virtual characters are graphical simulations of real or imaginary persons capable of human-like behaviour, most importantly talking and gesturing. Coupled with artificial ...
Funded as part of the `Network Enabled Platforms' program the Health Services Virtual Organization (HSVO) Project has developed a network-enabled platform (NEP) consisting of...
Rachel H. Ellaway, Jeremy R. Cooperstock, Bruce Sp...
We present the results of a detailed study of the Virtual Interface (VI) paradigm as a communication foundation for a distributed computing environment. Using Active Messages and ...
Andrew Begel, Philip Buonadonna, David E. Culler, ...
Abstract. We describe an architecture for building speech-enabled conversational agents, deployed as self-contained Web services, with ability to provide inference processing on ve...
Rapid improvements in network bandwidth, cost, and ubiquity combined with the security hazards and high total cost of ownership of personal computers have created a growing market...