Society needs humor, not just for entertainment. In the Web age, presentations become more and more flexible and personalized and they will require hu mor contributions for elec...
This paper tests the hypothesis that it is possible to build a generic Behavioural Animation system. The paper outlines the four models that form the key elements of a Behavioural...
J. R. Paul Hanna, Richard J. Millar, Wesley M. Joh...
Our goal is to build knowledge-based systems capable of answering a wide variety of questions, including questions that are unanticipated when the knowledge base is built. For sys...
Tiger is a scalable, fault-tolerant video file server constructed from a collection of computers connected by a switched network. All content files are striped across all of the c...
William J. Bolosky, Robert P. Fitzgerald, John R. ...
We define the "Pulse Synchronization" problem that requires nodes to achieve tight synchronization of regular pulse events, in the settings of distributed computing syste...