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PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A Dynamic Platform for Runtime Adaptation
—We present a middleware platform for assembling pervasive applications that demand fault-tolerance and adaptivity in distributed, dynamic environments. Unlike typical adaptive m...
Hubert Pham, Justin Mazzola Paluska, Umar Saif, Ch...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
127views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
A history of computing course with a technical focus
Many courses on the history of computing are designed for a general student audience, and as such, include fewer technical details than one might find in a typical CS course. Whi...
Geoffrey M. Draper, Robert R. Kessler, Richard F. ...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Acoustic fall detection using Gaussian mixture models and GMM supervectors
We present a system that detects human falls in the home environment, distinguishing them from competing noise, by using only the audio signal from a single far-field microphone....
Xiaodan Zhuang, Jing Huang, Gerasimos Potamianos, ...
SP
2009
IEEE
144views Security Privacy» more  SP 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Native Client: A Sandbox for Portable, Untrusted x86 Native Code
This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of Native Client, a sandbox for untrusted x86 native code. Native Client aims to give browser-based applications the...
Bennet Yee, David Sehr, Gregory Dardyk, J. Bradley...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
169views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Task-level imitation learning using variance-based movement optimization
— Recent advances in the field of humanoid robotics increase the complexity of the tasks that such robots can perform. This makes it increasingly difficult and inconvenient to ...
Manuel Mühlig, Michael Gienger, Sven Hellbach...