—All sciences, including astronomy, are now entering the era of information abundance. The exponentially increasing volume and complexity of modern data sets promises to transfor...
In his book "Understanding Media" social theorist Marshall McLuhan declared: "The medium is the message." The thesis of this paper is that with respect to imag...
Sign language communication includes not only lexical sign gestures but also grammatical processes which represent inflections through systematic variations in sign appearance. We...
Sylvie C. W. Ong, Surendra Ranganath, Yedatore Ven...
A long standing challenge in pen-based computer interaction is the ability to make sense of informal sketches. A main difficulty lies in reliably extracting and recognizing the i...
It is not uncommon for modern systems to be composed of a variety of interacting services, running across multiple machines in such a way that most developers do not really unders...