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CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Using activity theory to develop a design framework for rural development
Many attempts to bridge the digital divide between lesser-developed countries (LDC) through Information & Communication Technology (ICT) projects have had little success. With...
Arvind Ashok, Christian Beck
HPCA
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
A decoupled KILO-instruction processor
Building processors with large instruction windows has been proposed as a mechanism for overcoming the memory wall, but finding a feasible and implementable design has been an elu...
Miquel Pericàs, Adrián Cristal, Rube...
CHI
2002
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Passive acoustic knock tracking for interactive windows
We describe a novel interface that locates and characterizes knocks and taps atop a large glass window. Our current setup uses four contact piezoelectric pickups located near the ...
Joseph A. Paradiso, Che King Leo, Nisha Checka, Ka...
STOC
2007
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
On the convergence of Newton's method for monotone systems of polynomial equations
Monotone systems of polynomial equations (MSPEs) are systems of fixed-point equations X1 = f1(X1, . . . , Xn), . . . , Xn = fn(X1, . . . , Xn) where each fi is a polynomial with p...
Stefan Kiefer, Michael Luttenberger, Javier Esparz...
DCC
2007
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Spatial Sparsity Induced Temporal Prediction for Hybrid Video Compression
In this paper we propose a new motion compensated prediction technique that enables successful predictive encoding during fades, blended scenes, temporally decorrelated noise, and...
Gang Hua, Onur G. Guleryuz