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MOBICOM
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
SurroundSense: mobile phone localization via ambience fingerprinting
A growing number of mobile computing applications are centered around the user’s location. The notion of location is broad, ranging from physical coordinates (latitude/longitude...
Martin Azizyan, Ionut Constandache, Romit Roy Chou...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Virtual individual servers as privacy-preserving proxies for mobile devices
People increasingly generate content on their mobile devices and upload it to third-party services such as Facebook and Google Latitude for sharing and backup purposes. Although t...
Ramón Cáceres, Landon P. Cox, Harold...
UIST
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Bonfire: a nomadic system for hybrid laptop-tabletop interaction
We present Bonfire, a self-contained mobile computing system that uses two laptop-mounted laser micro-projectors to project an interactive display space to either side of a laptop...
Shaun K. Kane, Daniel Avrahami, Jacob O. Wobbrock,...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
High-speed string searching against large dictionaries on the Cell/B.E. Processor
Our digital universe is growing, creating exploding amounts of data which need to be searched, protected and filtered. String searching is at the core of the tools we use to curb...
Daniele Paolo Scarpazza, Oreste Villa, Fabrizio Pe...
HPDC
2007
IEEE
16 years 29 days ago
Failure-aware checkpointing in fine-grained cycle sharing systems
Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems aim at utilizing the large amount of idle computational resources available on the Internet. Such systems allow guest jobs to run on a ho...
Xiaojuan Ren, Rudolf Eigenmann, Saurabh Bagchi