This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
Today’s Web browsers allow users to open links in new windows or tabs. This action, which we call ‘branching’, is sometimes performed on search results when the user plans t...
Modern data centers are massive, and support a range of distributed applications across potentially hundreds of server racks. As their utilization and bandwidth needs continue to ...
Many networked applications that run in the background on a mobile device incur significant energy drains when using the cellular radio interface for communication. This is mainl...
Pavan K. Athivarapu, Ranjita Bhagwan, Saikat Guha,...
As we are surrounded by an ever-larger variety of post-PC devices, the traditional methods for identifying and authenticating users have become cumbersome and time-consuming. In t...
Tam Vu, Akash Baid, Simon Gao, Marco Gruteser, Ric...