We consider a hierarchical two-layer model of natural signals in which both layers are learned from the data. Estimation is accomplished by Score Matching, a recently proposed est...
CoCollage is a placed-based community technology that leverages the power of online social networking to facilitate awareness and face-to-face interactions in a third place. We ad...
Shelly Farnham, Joseph F. McCarthy, Yagnesh Patel,...
Emergence of the web and online computing applications gave rise to rich large scale social activity data. One of the principal challenges then is to build models and understandin...
Computer users rely on software tools to work effectively and efficiently, but it is difficult for users to be aware of all the tools that might be useful to them. While there a...
Abstract—Social conventions are useful self-sustaining protocols for groups to coordinate behavior without a centralized entity enforcing coordination. We perform an in-depth stu...