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Although speech and language processing techniques achieved a relative maturity during the last decade, designing a spoken dialogue system is still a tailoring task because of the ...
Although the energy required to perform a logic operation has continuously dropped at least by ten orders of magnitude since early vacuumtube electronics [1], the increasing clock ...
—As transistor feature sizes continue to shrink into the sub-90nm range and beyond, the effects of process variations on critical path delay and chip yields have amplified. A com...
In ATM networks, the Guaranteed Frame Rate (GFR) service has been proposed to accommodate non-real-time traffic with packet size not exceeding a maximum length, such as TCP/IP bas...