When we encounter an English word that we do not understand, we can look it up in a dictionary. However, when an American Sign Language (ASL) user encounters an unknown sign, looki...
The majority of today's content based image retrieval systems rely on low-level image descriptors which limit their capability to support meaningful interactions with the use...
The SkyServer is an Internet portal to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Catalog Archive Server. From 2001 to 2006, there were a million visitors in 3 million sessions generating 170 mi...
Vik Singh, Jim Gray, Ani Thakar, Alexander S. Szal...
We have developed Environmental Scenario Search Engine (ESSE) for parallel data mining of a set of conditions inside distributed, very large databases from multiple environmental ...
Mikhail N. Zhizhin, Eric A. Kihn, Vassily Lyutsare...
Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database, replicated among one or more servers, while hiding the identity of the retrieved item. ...