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Stationary Features and Cat Detection
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Stationary Features and Cat Detection

Most discriminative techniques for detecting instances from object categories in still images consist of looping over a partition of a pose space with dedicated binary classifiers. The efficiency o... read more »

Level: any Dec 29, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Spam, Phishing, and Online Scams: A View from the Network-Level
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Spam, Phishing, and Online Scams: A V...

The Internet is overrun with spam: Recent estimates suggest that spam constitutes about 95% of all email traffic. Beyond simply being a nuisance, spam exhausts network resources and can also serve ... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Research Scientist – Assaf schuster: A Geometric Approach to Detecting Global Properties over Distributed Data
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Research Scientist – Assaf schuster: ...

A basic construct in many distributed systems is the detection of global properties over distributed data. Examples include a wireless sensor network where we would like to be alerted whenever the ... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Online Maps: A Walk in Space
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Online Maps: A Walk in Space

Spatial orientation is central to peoples senses. Symbols, icons and images in space make up what we look at. Diagrams maps and images can serve different purposes; lots of kinds of maps exist. In ... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Research Scientist – Romain Thibaux
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Research Scientist – Romain Thibaux

Nonparametric Bayesian methods are a generalization of probabilistic models where the prior distribution can be a stochastic process, a distribution over a possibly uncountably infinite number of r... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Kilim: Fast, lightweight, cheap message passing in Java. A million actors, 3x faster than Erlang
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Kilim: Fast, lightweight, cheap messa...

The message passing (MP) paradigm is often seen as a superior alternative to the typical mix of idioms in concurrent (shared-memory, locks) and distributed programming (CORBA/RMI). MP eliminates wo... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
How to Slice the Pie? Optimal Share Structure Design in Internet Advertising Auctions
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How to Slice the Pie? Optimal Share S...

Internet-based advertising continues to increase in importance. Internet advertising providers such as Google and Yahoo! allocate their advertising resources using a novel form of share auctions in... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel
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Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel

The Linux Kernel, who is developing it, how they are doing it, and why you should care. This talk describes the rate of development for the Linux kernel, and how the development model is set up to ... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Gaming For Freedom
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Gaming For Freedom

Tim, Founder of the Thousand Parsec project, will explore the universe of Free and Open Source computer games, drawing on his personal experience as a case study for successfully building and contr... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
CREA – Saving Tropical Ecosystems
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CREA – Saving Tropical Ecosystems

Michael will talk about the work that his organization CREA is carrying out in Panama to conserve endangered tropical forests. Specifically the talk will deal with the link between human poverty an... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk