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SOUPS
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Folk models of home computer security
Home computer systems are frequently insecure because they are administered by untrained, unskilled users. The rise of botnets has amplified this problem; attackers can compromis...
Rick Wash
ICAD
2004
15 years 7 months ago
The Importance of Interaction in Sonification
This paper argues for a special focus on the use of dynamic human interaction to explore datasets while they are being transformed into sound. We describe why this is a special ca...
Andy Hunt, Thomas Hermann
CORR
2011
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
I Don't Want to Think About it Now:Decision Theory With Costly Computation
Computation plays a major role in decision making. Even if an agent is willing to ascribe a probability to all states and a utility to all outcomes, and maximize expected utility,...
Joseph Y. Halpern, Rafael Pass
NIPS
2008
15 years 7 months ago
Weighted Sums of Random Kitchen Sinks: Replacing minimization with randomization in learning
Randomized neural networks are immortalized in this well-known AI Koan: In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What a...
Ali Rahimi, Benjamin Recht
PERCOM
2009
ACM
16 years 27 days ago
A Letter Soup for the Quality of Information in Sensor Networks
—In this paper, an information grouping paradigm for QoI in sensor networks is introduced. First, a definition of QoI is presented by analyzing the ITU’s definition of QoS. T...
Chatschik Bisdikian, Joel W. Branch, Kin K. Leung,...