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VideoKheti: Making Video Content Accessible to Low-Literate and Novice Users

Designing ICT systems for rural users in the developing world is difficult for a variety of reasons ranging from problems with infrastructure to financial constraints. But beyond these difficulties, there are serious challenges associated with the potentia ...

2013

Energy-Efficient Opportunistic Collaborative Sensing

Karl Aberer, Julien Eberle, Zhixian Yan

This paper studies mobile sensing in a complete distributed and opportunistic scheme. We present a novel sensing strategy for sensing nodes without movement constraints. This strategy offers information sharing and sensor scheduling that maximizes the bene ...

IEEE2013

A practical reputation system for pervasive social chatting

Yu Chen, Yue Shen

A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is becoming a practical platform for pervasive social networking. For example, people chat with each other via MANET for instant social activities. How to help mobile users build up trust in pervasive social chatting is beco ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2013

Ultra low power NEMFET based logic

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Antonios Bazigos, Surya Shankar Dan

In this paper, we introduce a Nano-Electro-Mechanical Field Effect Transistor (NEMFET) based logic family tailored to the implementation of low speed and ultra low energy functional units and processors. Basic Boolean gates implemented with NEMFETs only ar ...

IEEE2013

Device-to-Device Assisted Video Transmission

Laura Toni, Wenwen Zhou

To increase spectrum efficiency, researchers envi- sion a device-to-device (D2D) communication system in which a closely located mobile device pair may share the same spectrum with a cellular user. By opportunistically choosing the frequency, the D2D pair ...

2013

GPUfs: Integrating a File System with GPUs

Bryan Alexander Ford

As GPU hardware becomes increasingly general-purpose, it is quickly outgrowing the traditional, constrained GPU-as-coprocessor programming model. To make GPUs easier to program and improve their integration with operating systems, we propose making the hos ...

2013

Scale-Out Processors

Pejman Lotfi Kamran

Global-scale online services, such as Google’s Web search and Facebook’s social networking, run in large-scale datacenters. Due to their massive scale, these services are designed to scale out (or distribute) their respective loads and datasets across thou ...

EPFL2013

Models and Algorithms for Ultra-Wideband Localization in Single- and Multi-Robot Systems

Amanda Stella Markowska Prorok

Location is a piece of information that empowers almost any type of application. In contrast to the outdoors, where global navigation satellite systems provide geo-spatial positioning, there are still millions of square meters of indoor space that are unac ...

EPFL2013

Mining Large-Scale Smartphone Data for Personality Studies

Daniel Gatica-Perez

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between automatically extracted behavioral characteristics derived from rich smartphone data and self-reported Big-Five personality traits (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability a ...

2013

Progress Towards a Miniaturized Electrospray Thruster for Propulsion of Small Spacecraft

Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino, Subha Chakraborty

Miniaturized electrical thrusters based on electrospray (or colloid) emitters could rev- olutionize the spacecraft industry by providing efficient propulsion capabilities to micro and nano satellites (1-100 kg). We report on our recent advances in the deve ...

2012

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