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.
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.
Li Fan, Pei Cao and Jussara Almeida & Andrei Z. Broder - this new protocol, each proxy keeps a summary of the cache directory of each participating proxy, and checks these summaries for potential hits before sending any queries.
a system for distributed, anonymous, persistent data storage which is robust against attempts by powerful adversaries to find and destroy any stored data.
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)
The purpose of the Online Games White Papers is to provide online games market statistics, business model descriptions, technology summaries and publisher listings.
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.
explores the challenges of constructing a distributed e-business architecture based on the concept of Request Based Virtual OrganiZation (RBVO) and presents a solution based on ebXML, Open Source e-business component
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.
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.
a collaborative effort to help deliver large, freely-downloadable content using peer-to-peer technology. The network is essentially a huge "virtual web server"
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..."
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.
In k-means clustering we are given a set of n data points in d-dimensional space and an integer k, and the problem is to determine a set of k points in d-space, called centers, so as to minimize the mean squared distance from each data point to its neares
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.
The object interfaces provided by ILU hide implementation distinctions between different languages, between different address spaces, and between operating system types. ILU can be used to build multi-lingual object-oriented libraries ("class libraries")
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.
This report was originally written in 1992-1993. Therefore, some of its information is out-of-date. The Object Agency, Inc. believes, however, that the report still provides many useful insights.
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.
file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date.
at infoDev "Perspectives for Development, was prepared by The Dravis Group for the World Bank's infoDev Symposium, and includes advice for how IT-constrained foreign firms might explore Open Source options."
a novel decentralized infrastructure, based on distributed hash tables (DHTs), that will enable a new generation of large-scale distributed applications.
Network models and integer programs are applicable for an enormous known variety of decision problems. Some of these decision problems are really physical problems, such as transportation or flow of commodities.
to research and develop software that contributes to compelling and effective social interactions, with a focus on user-centered design processes and rapid prototyping.
by Quan Wen, Dmitri B. Chklovskii "...what is the reason for such segregation? To answer this question, we posit that brain functionality requires high interconnectivity and short conduction delays."
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,
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
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
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
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.
by Dirk Riehle - "The advent of open source software has produced more than lower software costs for users. It has also created major changes in the economic interaction among players in the software ecosystem."
explores a novel interface to a system administration task. Instead of creating an interface de novo for the task, the author modified a popular computer game, Doom, to perform useful work.
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
Memetic Algorithms is a population-based approach for heuristic search in optimization problems. They have shown that they are orders of magnitude faster than traditional Genetic Algorithms for some problem domains.
a place for researchers to share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and other scientific documents.
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
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 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.