This note is an informal report about the Shadow Program Committee experiment that I organized for Sigcomm 2005. It (i) discusses the motivation for a Shadow Program Committee (PC...
In this short note, we revisit the so-called Ermakov–Pinney (EP) equation viewing its properties from a physically motivated perspective. We discuss its ties with the Schr¨odin...
Hand segmentation is the basis of many vision-based hand gesture applications in human computer interaction (HCI). This paper proposes a novel method of skin color weighted dispar...
Many researchers have noted that web search queries are often ambiguous or unclear. We present an approach for identifying the popular meanings of queries using web search logs an...
This paper argues that the key challenges facing HE institutions in 2007 are the same as a decade previously and therefore that lessons may be learned from previous attempts to emp...