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Ideas “worth” spreading: Female representation in the TED talk sphere

Gianluigi Viscusi, Heidi Christina Gautschi

Nowadays, the complexity of the relationships information has with power and control, business and ideology has been amplified, in part because the networks information now flows over are more complex and farther reaching than prior networks (Chadwick & Ho ...

2016

Information Production and Social Value for Public Policy: A Conceptual Modeling Perspective

Gianluigi Viscusi

The article investigates the potential role of conceptual modeling for policymaking. It argues that the use of conceptual schemas may provide an effective understanding of public sector information assets, and how they might be used to satisfy the needs of ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

A Pocket Sized Foldable Quadcopter for Situational Awareness and Reconnaissance

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev

Flying robots are rapidly becoming an essential tool in search and rescue missions because they can rapidly gather information from inaccessible or unsafe locations, thus increasing safety and rapidity of interventions. With this aim, we present a pocket s ...

Ieee2016

D2P: Distance-Based Differential Privacy in Recommenders

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Mahsa Taziki, Rhicheek Patra

The upsurge in the number of web users over the last two decades has resulted in a significant growth of online information. This information growth calls for recommenders that personalize the in- formation proposed to each individual user. Nevertheless, p ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Detecting nanoscale vibrations as signature of life

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Giovanni Longo, Francesco Simone Ruggeri, Petar Stupar

The existence of life in extreme conditions, in particular in extraterrestrial environments, is certainly one of the most intriguing scientific questions of our time. In this report, we demonstrate the use of an innovative nanoscale motion sensor in life-s ...

National Academy of Sciences2015

Memory Systems and Interconnects for Scale-Out Servers

Stavros Volos

The information revolution of the last decade has been fueled by the digitization of almost all human activities through a wide range of Internet services. The backbone of this information age are scale-out datacenters that need to collect, store, and proc ...

EPFL2015

Linking water age and solute dynamics in streamflow at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA

Andrea Rinaldo, Paolo Benettin, Gianluca Botter

We combine experimental and modeling results from a headwater catchment at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF), New Hampshire, USA, to explore the link between stream solute dynamics and water age. A theoretical framework based on water age dynami ...

American Geophysical Union2015

Image Transmorphing with JPEG

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan

Picture-related applications are extremely popular because pictures present attractive and vivid information. Nowadays, people record everyday life, communicate with each other, and enjoy entertainment using various interesting imaging applications. In man ...

2015

Information production and social value of open data: a conceptual modelling framework for public policy

Gianluigi Viscusi

The paper aims to investigate the role of conceptual modelling for policy making. In particular, it is argued that the use conceptual schemas may provide an effective understanding of the information asset of Public Administration and its capacity to satis ...

2015

An ensemble heterogeneous classification methodology for discovering health-related knowledge in social media messages

Marcel Salathé

The role of social media as a source of timely and massive information has become more apparent since the era of Web 2.0.Multiple studies illustrated the use of information in social media to discover biomedical and health-related knowledge.Most methods pr ...

Elsevier2014

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