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HUC
1999
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Close Encounters: Supporting Mobile Collaboration through Interchange of User Profiles
This paper introduces the notion of profile-based cooperation as a way to support awareness and informal communication between mobile users during chance encounters. We describe th...
Gerd Kortuem, Zary Segall, Thaddeus G. Cowan Thomp...
WSCG
2003
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15 years 8 months ago
The Virtual Environment - Another Approach
In this paper the virtual environment, viewed as a multi-dimensional space, populated by entities which interact with each other is considered. In this universe an entity can trig...
Dorin Mircea Popovici, Luca-Dan Serbanati, Fabrice...
WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Protecting browser state from web privacy attacks
Through a variety of means, including a range of browser cache methods and inspecting the color of a visited hyperlink, client-side browser state can be exploited to track users a...
Collin Jackson, Andrew Bortz, Dan Boneh, John C. M...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Kakeya Sets, New Mergers and Old Extractors
A merger is a probabilistic procedure which extracts the randomness out of any (arbitrarily correlated) set of random variables, as long as one of them is uniform. Our main result...
Zeev Dvir, Avi Wigderson
KCAP
2003
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Towards topic-based summarization for interactive document viewing
Our research aims at interactive document viewers that can select and highlight relevant text passages on demand. Another related objective is the generation of topic-specific su...
Achim G. Hoffmann, Son Bao Pham