The phrase "virtual community" is often used to describe long term, computer-mediated conversations amongst large groups. This paper suggests that such conversations may...
A common focus shared by researchers in mobile, ubiquitous and wearable computing is the attempt to break away from the traditional desktop computing paradigm. Computational servi...
Gregory D. Abowd, Anind K. Dey, Robert Orr, Jason ...
Modeling the reliability of distributed systems requires a good understanding of the reliability of the components. Careful modeling allows highly fault-tolerant distributed appli...
We present a corpus{based approach to word{sense disambiguation that only requires information that can be automatically extracted from untagged text. We use unsupervised techniqu...
We scan a large class of one-parameter families of elliptic curves for efficient arithmetic. The construction of the class is inspired by toric geometry, which provides a natural ...