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GI
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Discovery of Smart Objects in Ubiquitous Environments and the Need for Interaction Metaphors
: In ubiquitous environments computers and smart devices, especially the technical view on them, disappear and users are supported to concentrate on the tasks they actually intend ...
René Reiners
187
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FOCS
2000
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Extracting Randomness via Repeated Condensing
Extractors (defined by Nisan and Zuckerman) are procedures that use a small number of truly random bits (called the seed) to extract many (almost) truly random bits from arbitrar...
Omer Reingold, Ronen Shaltiel, Avi Wigderson
FOCS
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Near-Optimal Conversion of Hardness into Pseudo-Randomness
Various efforts ([?, ?, ?]) have been made in recent years to derandomize probabilistic algorithms using the complexity theoretic assumption that there exists a problem in E = dti...
Russell Impagliazzo, Ronen Shaltiel, Avi Wigderson
STOC
1998
ACM
112views Algorithms» more  STOC 1998»
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Quantum Circuits with Mixed States
Current formal models for quantum computation deal only with unitary gates operating on “pure quantum states”. In these models it is difficult or impossible to deal formally w...
Dorit Aharonov, Alexei Kitaev, Noam Nisan
STACS
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Random Sparse Bit Strings at the Threshold of Adjacency
d Abstract appeared in STACS `98) Joel H. Spencer1 and Katherine St. John2 1 Courant Institute, New York University, New York, NY 10012 2 Department of Mathematics, Santa Clara Uni...
Joel Spencer, Katherine St. John