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ACMACE
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Sketching-out virtual humans: from 2D storyboarding to immediate 3D character animation
Virtual beings are playing a remarkable role in today’s public entertainment, while ordinary users are still treated as audiences due to the lack of appropriate expertise, equip...
Chen Mao, Sheng Feng Qin, David K. Wright
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Drafting behind Akamai (travelocity-based detouring)
To enhance web browsing experiences, content distribution networks (CDNs) move web content “closer” to clients by caching copies of web objects on thousands of servers worldwi...
Ao-Jan Su, David R. Choffnes, Aleksandar Kuzmanovi...
SENSYS
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Intelligent light control using sensor networks
Increasing user comfort and reducing operation costs have always been two primary objectives of building operations and control strategies. Current building control strategies are...
Vipul Singhvi, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Ja...
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
120views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Managing server energy and operational costs in hosting centers
The growing cost of tuning and managing computer systems is leading to out-sourcing of commercial services to hosting centers. These centers provision thousands of dense servers w...
Yiyu Chen, Amitayu Das, Wubi Qin, Anand Sivasubram...
SIGUCCS
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Imaging, security, configuration, and maintenance for the masses
Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies (EPLT) [1] at the University of Washington maintains and supports a fleet of approximately 1,000 general-access student computin...
Brandon Koeller, Karalee Woody