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2010
Tsinghua U.
14 years 7 months ago
Cryptography by Cellular Automata or How Fast Can Complexity Emerge in Nature?
Computation in the physical world is restricted by the following spatial locality constraint: In a single unit of time, information can only travel a bounded distance in space. A ...
Benny Applebaum, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Money, glory and cheap talk: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Nikolay Archak
W4A
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Accessibility perspectives on enabling South African sign language in the South African national accessibility portal
Persons with disabilities are often marginalised from economy and society due to the lack of access to disability related information and services. Through the use of assistive te...
Louis Coetzee, Guillaume J.-L. Olivrin, Ilse Vivie...
EDBT
2010
ACM
188views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
Subsumption and complementation as data fusion operators
The goal of data fusion is to combine several representations of one real world object into a single, consistent representation, e.g., in data integration. A very popular operator...
Jens Bleiholder, Sascha Szott, Melanie Herschel, F...
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
165views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Hyperacoustic instruments: Computer-controlled instruments that are not electrophones
This paper describes a musical instrument consisting of a physical process that acoustically generates sound from the material world (i.e. sound derived from matter such as solid,...
Steve Mann, Ryan E. Janzen, Raymond Lo