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The problem of clustering multi-dimensional data has been well researched in the scientific community. It is a problem with wide scope and applications. With the rapid growth of very large databases, traditional clustering ...

Online harassment is both a social and technical problem, and has yet to be successfully solved. In order to better understand the issue and the challenges surrounding it, we conducted interviews with eighteen recipients ...

We present RF-Capture, a system that captures the human figure - i.e., a coarse skeleton - through a wall. RF-Capture tracks the 3D positions of a person's limbs and body parts even when the person is fully occluded from ...

Computers should be able to assist an engineer or designer at all stages of design without chasing the engineer away or frustrating her. In order for this to occur, the computer needs to be able to understand what the ...

Incentivization is a powerful way to get independent agents to make choices that drive a system to a desired optimum. Simply offering compensation for making a certain choice is enough to change the behavior of some people. ...

Big data analytics often involves complex join queries over two or more tables. Such join processing is expensive in a distributed setting both because large amounts of data must be read from disk, and because of data ...