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MIDDLEWARE
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Gossple Anonymous Social Network
While social networks provide news from old buddies, you can learn a lot more from people you do not know, but with whom you share many interests. We show in this paper how to bui...
Marin Bertier, Davide Frey, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne...
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Tower of Babel did not fail
Fred Brooks’ retelling of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel offers many insights into what makes building software difficult. The difficulty, according to common interp...
Paul Adamczyk, Munawar Hafiz
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
From OO to FPGA: fitting round objects into square hardware?
Consumer electronics today such as cell phones often have one or more low-power FPGAs to assist with energyintensive operations in order to reduce overall energy consumption and i...
Stephen Kou, Jens Palsberg
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
PerFallD: A pervasive fall detection system using mobile phones
Falls are a major health risk that diminish the quality of life among elderly people. With the elderly population surging, especially with aging "baby boomers", fall dete...
Jiangpeng Dai, Xiaole Bai, Zhimin Yang, Zhaohui Sh...
PUC
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Mobile phone-based pervasive fall detection
Falls are a major health risk that diminishes the quality of life among the elderly people. The importance of fall detection increases as the elderly population surges, especially ...
Jiangpeng Dai, Xiaole Bai, Zhimin Yang, Zhaohui Sh...