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Video-Centric Network Coding Strategies for 4G Wireless Networks: An Overview
November 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
The impact of Internet content and IP based television on networks is growing. Video is now ubiquitous in the home and on the street. It demands new approaches to video transmission to meet the...
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Quality of Service Profiling
February 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents to readers a new Quality of Service (QoS) profiler that has been created to help developers figure out improved optimization opportunities in computations that reflect a trade...
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How Does Popularity Information Affect Choices? Theory and A Field Experiment
January 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
Popularity information is usually thought to reinforce existing sales trends by encouraging customers to flock to mainstream products. A theoretical model was developed which predicts the...
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End-User Software Engineering Position Paper
July 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Author's goal is to make the process of programming easier, especially for people who are not necessarily specialists in computer science. Why is it so much harder to program a computer than...
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Wireless Networks Should Spread Spectrum Based on Demands
October 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today's local-area, mesh and cellular networks assign a single narrow-band channel to a node, and this assignment remains fixed over long time scales. Using network traces, this paper show that...
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Will iSCSI Dominate SANs?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The primary mode of data storage for computer servers has been direct-attached storage (DAS). In this mode, a computer issues commands to manage blocks of data on internal disk drives. This mode...
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iJam: Jamming Oneself for Secure Wireless Communication
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents iJam, a PHY-layer protocol for OFDM-based wireless systems. iJam ensures that an eavesdropper cannot successfully demodulate a wireless signal not intended for it. To achieve...
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Leading Change In Complex Organizations
June 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Successful implementation of new business strategies and innovations is dependent on executives who know how to design and lead organizational change. Despite a decade of change initiatives driven...
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Strategies For Sustainable Business Practice
December 6, 2007, 12:00am PST
Sustainability is no longer relegated to offices that handle isolated issues like waste management or corporate charitable giving. Innovative leaders from a wide range of industries and functional...
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Building Secure High-Performance Web Services With OKWS
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
OKWS is a toolkit for building fast and secure Web services. It provides Web developers with a small set of tools that has proved powerful enough to build complex systems with limited effort....
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The Extroverted Firm: How External Information Practices Affect Innovation And Productivity
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors gather detailed data on organizational practices from 253 firms to examine the hypothesis that external focus - the ability of a firm to detect and therefore respond to changes in its...
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Asymmetric Information Distances For Automated Taxonomy Construction
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A novel method for automatically constructing taxonomies for specific research domains is presented. The proposed methodology uses term co-occurrence frequencies as an indicator of the semantic...
Provided by MIT Center for Digital Business
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The Changing Software Business: From Products To Services And Other New Business Models
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Over the past several years, the software business has been undergoing dramatic changes, with important implications both for users as well as producers of software products and services. Perhaps...
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Introducing Tarzan, a Peer-to-Peer Anonymizing Network Layer
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
The ultimate goal of Internet anonymization is to allow a host to communicate with a non-participating server in such a manner that nobody can determine his identity. Toward this goal, the authors...
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Observed Structure of Addresses in IP Traffic
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the structure of addresses contained in IP traffic. Specifically, the authors analyze the structural characteristics of destination IP addresses seen on Internet links,...
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A Framework for Scalable Global IP-Anycast (GIA)
November 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes GIA, a scalable architecture for global IP-anycast. Existing designs for providing IP-anycast must either globally distribute routes to individual anycast groups, or confine...
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Serving DNS Using a Peer-to-Peer Lookup Service
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
The current Domain Name System (DNS) couples ownership of domains with the responsibility of serving data for them. The DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) allows verification of records obtained by...
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An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores
September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the scalability of seven system applications (Exim, memcached, Apache, PostgreSQL, gmake, Psearchy, and MapReduce) running on Linux on a 48- core computer. Except for gmake,...
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Optimal Pricing in the Presence of Local Network Effects
December 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors study the optimal pricing strategies of a monopolist selling a divisible good (service) to consumers that are embedded in a social network. A key feature of the model is that consumers...
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Is Britney Spears Spam?
August 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors seek to redefine spam and the role of the spam filter in the context of Social Networking Services (SNS). SNS, such as MySpace and Facebook, are increasing in popularity. They enable...
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Making Linux Protection Mechanisms Egalitarian With UserFS
June 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
UserFS provides egalitarian OS protection mechanisms in Linux. UserFS allows any user - not just the system administrator - to allocate Unix user IDs, to use chroot, and to set up firewall rules...
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Internal Location Based System for Mobile Devices Using Passive RFID and Wireless Technology
January 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors have explored the own innovative work about the design & development of internal location-identification system for mobile devices based on integration of RFID and wireless technology....
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Intelligent Camera Control in a Virtual Environment
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper describes a framework for exploring intelligent camera controls in a 3D virtual environment. It presents a methodology for designing the underlying camera controls based on an analysis...
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The Schema-Independent Database UI
January 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
If one has ever encountered a piece of highly domain-specific business software, one might have noticed that it was largely a graphical front-end to some relational database. One might also, in...
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Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing With People
January 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
Amazon's Mechanical Turk ("MTurk") service allows users to post short tasks ("HITs") that other users can receive a small amount of money for completing. Common tasks on the system include...
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Blocks + Computing = A New Kind of Interface
June 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The startup Sifteo, based in San Francisco, will bring to market handheld, computerized cubes that can sense each other and run a variety of interactive programs. Recently, Technology Review got a...
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Data Transfer at Light Speed
August 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The world of computing could change rapidly in coming years thanks to technology that replaces the metal wiring between components with faster, more efficient fiber-optic links. "All...
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Sony Sets Its Sights on Augmented Reality
May 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Sony has demonstrated a new augmented reality system called Smart AR that can be built into the company's future gaming devices. Augmented reality involves mapping virtual objects onto a view of...
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Making 3-D Models From Your Photos
May 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The design software company Autodesk will release free software next week that could turn those snapshots into one's own personal replica from a 3-D printer. Called Photofly, the software extracts...
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The Invisible IPhone
May 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Over time, using a smart-phone touch screen becomes second nature, to the point where one can even do some tasks without looking. Researchers in Germany are now working on a system that would let...
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A Personalized Trip to the Grocery Store
April 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
An iPhone app launching today provides a glimpse into the future of shopping. Created by Modiv Media, the app lets customers scan items while they shop, presents them with personalized offers as...
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TR10: Cloud Streaming
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In the Silicon Valley conference room of OnLive, Steve Perlman touches the lifelike 3-D face of a computer-generated woman displayed on his iPad. Swiping the screen with his fingers, Perlman...
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App Turns Your Phone Into a 3-D Scanner
March 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Capturing an object in three dimensions needn't require the budget of Avatar. A new cell phone app developed by Microsoft researchers can be sufficient. The software uses overlapping snapshots to...
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An On-Off Switch for Anxiety
March 10, 2011, 12:00am PST
The flick of a precisely placed light switch, mice can be induced to cower in a corner in fear or bravely explore their environment. The webcast highlights the power of optogenetics technology -...
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Hacks of the Microsoft Kinect
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
A new generation of tools will soon make it even easier to tinker with the Kinect, the $150 Microsoft device that lets people control video games by gesturing. Since the Kinect's release in...
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Growing Lasers on Computer Chips
February 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
The first time, researchers have grown lasers from high-performance materials directly on silicon. Bringing together electrical and optical components on computer chips would speed data transfer...
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Inside Organizations: Pricing, Politics, And Path Dependence
December 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
When economists have considered organizations, much attention has focused on the boundary of the firm, rather than its internal structures and processes. In contrast, this paper sketches three...
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An Adaptive Parameter Free Data Mining Approach for Healthcare Application
February 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
In today's world, healthcare is the most important factor affecting human life. Due to heavy work load it is not possible for personal healthcare. The proposed system acts as a preventive measure...
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Algorithms Using Java for Spreadsheet Dependent Cell Recomputation
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Java implementations of algorithms used by spreadsheets to automatically recomputed the set of cells dependent on a changed cell are described using a mathematical model for spreadsheets based on...
Provided by The MIT Press
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Network Coded Gossip With Correlated Data
February 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors design and analyze gossip algorithms for networks with correlated data. In these networks, either the data to be distributed, the data already available at the nodes, or both, are...
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Towards Realizing the Performance and Availability Benefits of a Global Overlay Network
January 1, 2013, 12:00am PST
Prior analyses of the benefits of routing overlays are based on platforms consisting of nodes located primarily in North America, on the academic Internet, and at the edge of the network. This...
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UFlood: High-Throughput Flooding Over Wireless Mesh Networks
February 18, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes UFlood, a flooding protocol for wireless mesh networks. UFlood targets situations such as software updates where all nodes need to receive the same large file of data, and...
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Mosh: An Interactive Remote Shell for Mobile Clients
May 2, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Mosh (mobile shell) is a remote terminal application that supports intermittent connectivity, allows roaming, and speculatively and safely echoes user keystrokes for better interactive response...
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Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing Using Data Reconstruction Based Approach
March 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Data mining services require accurate input data for their results to be meaningful, but privacy concerns may influence users to provide spurious information. To preserve client privacy in the...
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Path Vector Face Routing: Geographic Routing With Local Face Information
January 1, 2013, 12:00am PST
Existing geographic routing algorithms depend on the planarization of the network connectivity graph for correctness, and the planarization process gives rise to a well-defined notion of "Faces"....
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Network Coded Gossip With Correlated Data
February 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors design and analyze gossip algorithms for networks with correlated data. In these networks, either the data to be distributed, the data already available at the nodes, or both, are...
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Algorithms Using Java for Spreadsheet Dependent Cell Recomputation
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Java implementations of algorithms used by spreadsheets to automatically recomputed the set of cells dependent on a changed cell are described using a mathematical model for spreadsheets based on...
Provided by The MIT Press
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An Adaptive Parameter Free Data Mining Approach for Healthcare Application
February 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
In today's world, healthcare is the most important factor affecting human life. Due to heavy work load it is not possible for personal healthcare. The proposed system acts as a preventive measure...
Provided by MIT College Of Engineering
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Interrupt Based Switching for Multi-Cluster FlexRay Systems
May 18, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper deals with a new straightforward approach to significantly increase the bandwidth usage in FlexRay networks. The authors propose a new hardware component, termed FlexWay that...
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Mitigation of Non-Linear Distortion Using PTS With Minimal Control Synthesis Method in OFDM System
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a strong candidate for future wireless communication because it is marked by its higher frequency multiplicity and greater immunity to...
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Low Power PH Sensor for Wireless Sensor Network Node Agricultural Application
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
A Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is now widely used in precision agriculture applications. Sensors play an important role in WSN. The measurement of soil pH is arguably the most widely performed...
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Design of a Broadband CPW-Fed Monopole Antenna for WLAN Operations
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a novel broadband design of a Co-Planar Waveguide (CPW)-fed planar monopole antenna with double plus shape slots is proposed. The design considerations for achieving broadband...
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Low Power High Gain CMOS LNA for WLAN and ISM Band Applications
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
There is rapid development in the field of wireless communication which makes demand for low-cost, high-performance and high-integration technology. System On a Chip (SOC) implementation is also...
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Optimize Handover and Channel Allocation Procedure in Communication Network
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless communication is reveling its fastest growth period in history, due to enabling technologies which allow extensive deployment. Handover is a critical feature in cellular systems and...
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E-Security Problems, Policies for Networked Information Systems
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
With the rapid growth of e-commerce, governmental and corporate agencies are taking extra precautions when it comes to protecting information. The development of e-security as a discipline has...
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Preemptive Multipath - Adhoc on Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
A Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) consists of a set of mobile hosts capable of communicating with each other without the assistance of base stations. The topology of ad-hoc networks changes rapidly....
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Impact of Security and Quality Attributes of 3-G Based M-Commerce Systems Based on B2C Operation
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
A year ago, everyone was talking about the great opportunities for 3G, and accessing the Internet from one's mobile terminal. Today 3-G network has grown up. Mobile-commerce (m-commerce) systems...
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Performance Analysis of Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Network Using NS-2
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The MANET routing protocols DSDV, DSR and AODV are the most promising routing protocols. The people can be used in MANET to route packets between mobile nodes. The main objective of this paper...
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Cachecompression Techniques
May 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The proliferation of Chip MultiProcessors (CMPs) has led to the integration of large on-chip caches. With increasing number of cores and cache banks integrated on a single die, the on-chip network...
Provided by MIT College Of Engineering
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Reconciling the Theory and Practice of (Un)Reliable Wireless Broadcast
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Theorists and practitioners have fairly different perspectives on how wireless broadcast works. Theorists think about synchrony; practitioners think about backoff. Theorists assume reliable...
Provided by MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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Email Security Protocol
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The people all receive and send emails and are very much familiar to the term but what they need is that the emails which they are sending or receiving are very much secure or not. They are...
Provided by MIT College Of Engineering
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Transactional Consistency and Automatic Management in an Application Data Cache
September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Distributed in-memory application data caches like mem-cached are a popular solution for scaling database-driven web sites. These systems are easy to add to existing deployments, and increase...
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Lightweight Implementations of Probabilistic Programming Languages Via Transformational Compilation
May 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors describe a general method of transforming arbitrary programming languages into probabilistic programming languages with straightforward MCMC inference engines. Random choices in the...
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Deployment of Routing Strategy Based Firecracker Protocol for Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks During Natural Calamities
March 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The IT revolution made some glorious promises to the world's poor: instant access to far-flung markets, political empowerment, greater growth, even the possibility that countries could leapfrog...
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Improving Wireless Network Performance Using Sensor Hints
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
With the proliferation of mobile wireless devices such as smartphones and tablets that are used in a wide range of locations and movement conditions, it has become important for wireless protocols...
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Generalized Transform Analysis Of Affine Processes And Asset Pricing Applications
February 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
Non-linearities are often important considerations in many applications in finance and economics such as pricing securities, computing equilibria, and conducting structural estimations. This paper...
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Cardiovascular Monitoring Using Earphones and a Mobile Device
November 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
Frequent and non-invasive cardiovascular monitoring is important in surveillance for cardiovascular catastrophes and treatment therapies of chronic disease. Resting heart rate, one of the simplest...
Provided by MIT Media Lab
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Financial Deepening And The Global Currency Usage
November 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
There are many different determinants of global currency usage. This paper will focus on one: a demand for a country's financial liabilities due to financial deepening and liquidity. This focus...
Provided by MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
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Inside Organizations: Pricing, Politics, And Path Dependence
December 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
When economists have considered organizations, much attention has focused on the boundary of the firm, rather than its internal structures and processes. In contrast, this paper sketches three...
Provided by MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
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Webcasts
Growing Lasers on Computer Chips
February 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
The first time, researchers have grown lasers from high-performance materials directly on silicon. Bringing together electrical and optical components on computer chips would speed data transfer...
Provided by MIT
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Webcasts
Hacks of the Microsoft Kinect
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
A new generation of tools will soon make it even easier to tinker with the Kinect, the $150 Microsoft device that lets people control video games by gesturing. Since the Kinect's release in...
Provided by MIT
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Webcasts
An On-Off Switch for Anxiety
March 10, 2011, 12:00am PST
The flick of a precisely placed light switch, mice can be induced to cower in a corner in fear or bravely explore their environment. The webcast highlights the power of optogenetics technology -...
Provided by MIT
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Webcasts
App Turns Your Phone Into a 3-D Scanner
March 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Capturing an object in three dimensions needn't require the budget of Avatar. A new cell phone app developed by Microsoft researchers can be sufficient. The software uses overlapping snapshots to...
Provided by MIT
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Podcasts
TR10: Cloud Streaming
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In the Silicon Valley conference room of OnLive, Steve Perlman touches the lifelike 3-D face of a computer-generated woman displayed on his iPad. Swiping the screen with his fingers, Perlman...
Provided by MIT
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Webcasts
A Personalized Trip to the Grocery Store
April 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
An iPhone app launching today provides a glimpse into the future of shopping. Created by Modiv Media, the app lets customers scan items while they shop, presents them with personalized offers as...
Provided by MIT
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Webcasts
The Invisible IPhone
May 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Over time, using a smart-phone touch screen becomes second nature, to the point where one can even do some tasks without looking. Researchers in Germany are now working on a system that would let...
Provided by MIT
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Webcasts
Making 3-D Models From Your Photos
May 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The design software company Autodesk will release free software next week that could turn those snapshots into one's own personal replica from a 3-D printer. Called Photofly, the software extracts...
Provided by MIT
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Webcasts
Sony Sets Its Sights on Augmented Reality
May 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Sony has demonstrated a new augmented reality system called Smart AR that can be built into the company's future gaming devices. Augmented reality involves mapping virtual objects onto a view of...
Provided by MIT
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Podcasts
Data Transfer at Light Speed
August 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The world of computing could change rapidly in coming years thanks to technology that replaces the metal wiring between components with faster, more efficient fiber-optic links. "All...
Provided by MIT
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Webcasts
Blocks + Computing = A New Kind of Interface
June 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The startup Sifteo, based in San Francisco, will bring to market handheld, computerized cubes that can sense each other and run a variety of interactive programs. Recently, Technology Review got a...
Provided by MIT
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