Technical Perspective: A Fresh Approach to Vector Graphics
The following paper makes a fundamental contribution to the world of vector graphics by introducing a new primitive called diffusion curve.
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Diffusion Curves: A Vector Representation For Smooth-Shaded Images
We describe a new vector-based primitive for creating smooth-shaded images, called the diffusion curve.
3-D printing has come of age. It promises to revolutionize a wide range of industries and profoundly change the way people buy and consume.
Future Tense: Where the Cross-Platform Bends
Visits home brought mixed feelings. Greta loved her parents, but she always came away tense and exhausted from the duplicity of self-censorship, guarding her parents from the aspects of her true self she knew they didn't, couldn't, would never, approve of.
Keeping Computers Cool From the Inside
New techniques could cut the power required to avoid overheating.
Consequence Analysis of Complex Events on Critical U.S. Infrastructure
How to mitigate a cyber-physical attack that disables the transportation network and releases a cloud of chlorine gas.
Incentives and Rewarding in Social Computing
Praise, pay, and promote crowd-member workers to elicit desired behavioral responses and performance levels.
Turing Award recipients Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali talk about proofs, probability, and poker.
Technical Perspective: Circuit Placement Challenges
For a semiconductor circuit with billions of transistors, finding desired locations of circuit components is a challenging task that substantially impacts circuit quality and manufacturing cost.
SimPL: An Algorithm For Placing VLSI Circuits
VLSI placement optimizes locations of circuit components so as to reduce interconnect. We propose an algorithm for large-scale placement that outperforms prior art both in runtime and solution quality on standard benchmarks.
Advances on multiple fronts are bringing big improvements to the way computers learn, increasing the accuracy of speech and vision systems.
Augmented-Reality Glasses Bring Cloud Security Into Sharp Focus
The possibility of a new $200-billion-plus industry has cloud security experts bracing for the ramifications.
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.
Real-time finite difference-based sound synthesis using graphics processors.
There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System
Building a distributed system requires a methodical approach to requirements.
Content Recommendation on Web Portals
How to offer recommendations to users when they have not specified what they want.
Commercial drones are poised to revolutionize a wide range of industries, though regulatory and privacy concerns have created some resistance.
Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery
Google ads, black names and white names, racial discrimination, and click advertising.
Flash memory has come a long way and it is time for software to catch up.
Collaboration With a Robotic Scrub Nurse
Surgeons use hand gestures and/or voice commands without interrupting the natural flow of a procedure.
The NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine builds on the key observation that most ray tracing algorithms can be implemented using a small set of programmable operations.
Technical Perspective: The Ray-Tracing Engine That Could
It has been an open question whether it is possible to build GPU-targeted high-performance software systems that are themselves programmable. "GPU Ray Tracing" shows how to achieve both programmability and high performance in such a system.
Discriminative Learning with Latent Variables For Cluttered Indoor Scene Understanding
We address the problem of understanding an indoor scene from a single image in terms of recovering the room geometry (floor, ceiling, and walls) and furniture layout.
Techniques and Applications For Sentiment Analysis
The main applications and challenges of one of the hottest research areas in computer science.
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