Globally, nearly four billion people do not have access to the world wide web (WWW), and efforts to expand WWW access are growing rapidly. Despite these initiatives, local and international barriers along political, economic, ...

Client devices operating at the edges on the Internet, in homes, cars, offices, and elsewhere, are highly heterogeneous in terms of their hardware configurations, form factors, and capabilities, ranging from small sensors ...

Discrete dynamic system models that track, maintain, utilize, and evolve virtual time are referred to as virtual time systems (VTS). The realization of VTS using virtual machine (VM) technology offers several benefits ...

Providing performance and isolation guarantees for applications running in virtualized datacenter environments requires continuous management of the underlying physical resources. For communication- and I/O-intensive ...

In this work, we analyze and apply various recent techniques in visual attribute recognition and labeling on a common benchmark dataset in order to motivate the design of a novel framework for this task. Using the large ...

Knowing the semantic category of a robot's current position not only facilitates the robot's navigation, but also greatly improves its ability to serve human needs and to interpret the scene. Visual Place Categorization ...

In this dissertation, I propose and study a multi-modal Artificial Intelligence (AI) task called Visual Question Answering (VQA) -- given an image and a natural language question about the image (e.g., "What kind of store ...

Throughout a typical day, people complete myriad tasks and activities such as locking the front door as they run errands around the neighborhood, preparing meals and drinks, taking care of family, pets, plants, and so on. ...

A key component of visualization systems that helps human sensemaking is interactivity. Thoughtfully designed interactions make the visual analysis process a conversation between the user and the interface that results in ...