Department of Mathematical Sciences San Diego State University, Vernor Vinge - Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
an online academic journal accepting publications on any subject. Philica takes a completely revolutionary approach to the publishing and reviewing of academic research. The instant, open-access Journal of Everything
to research and develop software that contributes to compelling and effective social interactions, with a focus on user-centered design processes and rapid prototyping.
enhancing the aesthetic appeal (or the attractiveness) of human faces in frontal photographs (portraits), while maintaining close similarity with the original.
an approach to simulating very large textures using much less texture memory than they'd require in full by downloading only the data that is needed, and using a pixel shader to map from the virtual large texture to the actual physical texture.
a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from video—models that might be inserted into a video game, a simulation environment, or another video sequence.
THESIS submitted by Antony ROBERT to the Faculty of Science of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor scientiarum informaticarum
a tool for providing the 'atomic' keyword for C/C++ (gcc, x86, Linux only yet). With TARIFA you may replace hard-to-understand lock (mutex) constructs or improve coarse-grained locking solutions by employing regions of code that appear to be executed atom
a group of international experts involved in network and system security. THC was founded in 1995 in Germany, has published over 60 software releases and technical papers and currently is among the top ten security groups worldwide.
Network Address Translation (NAT) causes well-known difficulties for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, since the peers involved may not be reachable at any globally valid IP address.
a distributed file sharing program. Users join channels where they receive announcements for available resources. These resources may include files, chat groups, search groups, and other channels.
aims to build scalable, robust distributed systems using peer-to-peer ideas. The basis for much of our work is the Chord distributed hash lookup primitive.
Using data gathered from US government agencies, anthropologist Felix Pharand-Deschenes has created a collection of maps that illustrate the various circulatory systems that connect humanity: cities, roads, railways, power lines, pipelines, cable Internet, airlines, and shipping lanes. The maps are remarkable cartographic documents of our current age, but also serve deeper research and educational purposes.
Shadowing is a key component for convincing, solid-looking rendering. Whether hard or soft, physically correct or perceptually satisfying, NVIDIA has been at the forefront of real-time shadowing technology. This page collects some of the shadow-related presentations and white papers created in recent years by NVIDIA developers.
Human perception plays an important role in the area of visualization. An understanding of perception can significantly improve both the quality and the quantity of information being displayed
James Hays and Alexei Efros of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have just published a scientific paper announcing their breakthrough that "seamlessly" alters photos automatically
These examples are taken from "A Plagiarism Pentimento" (Rebecca Moore Howard, Journal of Teaching Writing, Summer 1993), but the discussion of the examples was written--and revised--by the faculty of Drew University in 1998-99
by Alan C. Kay ffrom Apple Computer - "Most ideas come from previous ideas. The sixties, particularly in the ARPA community, gave rise to a host of notions..."
The FOOL workshops were initiated in 1993 with the assistance of grants from the NSF and ESPRIT to bring together researchers from around the world to discuss the theoretical foundations of object-oriented languages.
Anat Levin, Dani Lischinski, Yair Weiss - a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie with a relatively modest amount of user input.
Any peer-to-peer publishing system must provide a mechanism for efficiently locating published documents. For censorship resistant systems, it is particularly important that the lookup mechanism be difficult to disable or abuse.
sponsored by ACM, the arXiv.org e-Print archive, NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library), and AAAI. CoRR allows researchers to search, browse and download papers through its online repository.
stands for Masqueraded, Anonymous, Decentralized, Dynamic Information Sharing and is the attempt to create a powerful state-of-the-art peer-2-peer system. (on hold)
do projecto “Empresa na Hora”, foi criado um novo regime de publicações dos actos societários, deixando de ser necessária a publicação na IIIª Série do Diário da República. A publicação passou a efectuar-se on-line, em sítio na internet,