In contextual computing, where cues beyond direct user input are used to trigger computation, one of the most daunting challenges is inferring what the user is doing. For the doma...
Victoria Bellotti, Jim Thornton, Alvin Chin, Diane...
In developing a distributed file system, there are several good reasons for implementing the client file cache manager as a user-level process. These include ease of implementatio...
David C. Steere, James J. Kistler, Mahadev Satyana...
Parallel programming models on large-scale systems require a scalable system for managing the processes that make up the execution of a parallel program. The process-management sys...
Pavan Balaji, Darius Buntinas, David Goodell, Will...
The medical community is producing and manipulating a tremendous volume of digital data for which computerized archiving, processing and analysis is needed. Grid infrastructures ar...
Little is known about the impact of politeness in online communities. This project combines deductive and inductive approaches to automatically model linguistic politeness in onli...