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Computing with Reads and Writes in the Absence of Step Contention

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Things that Talk: On a new perspective for engaging with scientific instruments

Jérôme Baudry, Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu

Our contribution will propose a new approach for engaging with scientific instruments inspired by a recent exhibition which we have designed and organized. Inverting the current trope of presenting history through many objects, the exhibition weaved togeth ...

2023

Effects of item distinctiveness on the retrieval of objects and object-location bindings from visual working memory

Yury Markov

Visual working memory (VWM) is prone to interference from stored items competing for its limited capacity. Distinctiveness or similarity of the items is acknowledged to affect this competition, such that poor item distinctiveness causes a failure to discri ...

2022

Catch Me If You Can Designing a Disobedient Object to Protest Against GSM Surveillance

Félicien Michel Marie Goguey

In this article, I discuss the process of designing an object to protest against a specific surveillance device: the IMSI catcher, a controversial object used to monitor GSM networks. Being widely used in protests, I develop a tactical approach based on ob ...

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A Thrifty Universal Construction

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A universal construction is an algorithm which transforms any sequential implementation of an object into a concurrent implementation of that same object in a linearizable and wait-free manner. Such constructions require underlying low-level universal shar ...

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Safety, Liveness and Parallelism in Concurrent Computing

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The correctness of a shared object, which can be accessed by several processes concurrently, is specified through two different kinds of properties - safety and liveness. When implementing a shared object it is important to specify its correctness in a suc ...

EPFL2015

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Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli

This paper contributes to address the fundamental challenge of building Concurrent Data Types (CDT) that are reusable and scalable at the same time. We do so by proposing the abstraction of Polymorphic Transactions (PT): a new programming abstraction that ...

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Nanoscale motion detector

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Motion detector comprising a flexible support (1,5) adapted to hold at least one object (6-9), a sensor (4) for measuring the displacement of said support (1) and processing means for differentiating the fluctuations of said support (1) from those induced ...

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Object Duplicate Detection

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With the technological evolution of digital acquisition and storage technologies, millions of images and video sequences are captured every day and shared in online services. One way of exploring this huge volume of images and videos is through searching a ...

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Content Search Through Comparisons

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The present invention relates to searching, in particular guided searching through a database of stored objects. A user is presented with proposals of objects and is invited to select the objects she considers closest to the intended objective of her searc ...

2011

Object-based Tag Propagation for Semi-automatic Annotation of Images

Touradj Ebrahimi, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda

Over the last few years, social network systems have greatly increased users’ involvement in online content creation and annotation. Since such systems usually need to deal with a large amount of multimedia data, it becomes desirable to realize an interact ...

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