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CCR
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
Electronic mail is an unquestionably vital component of the Internet infrastructure. While the general perception of email is that it "just works," surprisingly little d...
CSCW
2000
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
2000
ACM
We discuss findings from an ethnographic study of instant messaging (IM) in the workplace and its implications for media theory. We describe how instant messaging supports a varie...
ICC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Skype is one of the most successful VoIP application in the current Internet spectrum. One of the most peculiar characteristics of Skype is that it relies on a P2P infrastructur...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Outside of the laboratory, accurate models of ground impact dynamics are either difficult or impossible to obtain. Instead, a rigid ground model is often used in gait and cont...
APCCM
2006
13 years 9 months ago
2006
A wide range of database applications manage information that varies over time. Many of the underlying database schemas of these were designed using one of the several versions of...