This thesis investigates the problem of classification from multiple noisy sensors or modalities. Examples include speech and gesture interfaces and multi-camera distributed sensor networks. Reliable recognition in such ...

Amazon's Mechanical Turk provides a programmatically accessible micro-task market, allowing a program to hire human workers. This has opened the door to a rich field of research in human computation where programs orchestrate ...

This thesis addresses the general problem of how to find globally consistent and accurate estimates of multiple-view camera geometry from uncalibrated imagery of an extended scene. After decades of study, the classic problem ...

In this dissertation I propose a shift in the foundations of computation. Modem programming systems are not expressive enough. The traditional image of a single computer that has global effects on a large memory is too ...

(cont.) We show upper and lower bounds for the general problem and for specific partial orders. A few of our intermediate results are of independent interest. 1. If strings with a property form a vector space, adaptive ...