Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
Current Web search tools do a good job of retrieving documents that satisfy the wide range of intentions that people associate with a query – but do not do a very good job of di...
■ Observers spontaneously segment larger activities into smaller events. For example, “washing a car” might be segmented into “scrubbing,” “rinsing,” and “drying...
Khena M. Swallow, Deanna M. Barch, Denise Head, Co...
We extend Goldberg’s multi-server information-theoretic private information retrieval (PIR) with a suite of protocols for privacypreserving e-commerce. Our first protocol adds ...
The current web is a web of linked pages. Frustrated users search for facts by guessing which keywords or keyword phrases might lead them to pages where they can find facts. Can w...