Machine Learning is concerned with computer programs that automatically improve their performance through experience (e.g., programs that learn to recognize human faces, recommend music and movies, ...

We introduce the heat method for solving the single- or multiple-source shortest path problem on both flat and curved domains. A key insight is that distance computation can be split into two stages: ...

We introduce a stochastic graph-based method for computing relative importance of textual units for Natural Language Processing. We test the technique on the problem of Text Summarization (TS).

The Young Architect Workshop (YArch, pronounced “why arch”) is a workshop for junior graduate students and research-active undergraduate students studying computer architecture and related fields.

Here are three lectures, slight variants of which were given at the MADALGO summer school on streaming 2015 as well as the BASICS summer school on communication complexity 2015. The first lecture is ...

Predicting the Past: Estimating Historical Appraisals with OCR and Machine Learning. Mihir Bhaskar, Jun Tao Luo, Zihan Geng, Asmita Hajra, Junia Howell, Matthew R. Gormley.

In addition to the engine, the Scone system comes with a number of knowledge-base files, each of which is a collection of descriptions and statements about the entities in some subject area. The "core ...

Linkage are composed of links and lower pairs. The simplest closed-loop linkage is the four-bar linkage, which has three moving links, one fixed link and four pin joints. A linkage with one link fixed ...

Visual perception is indispensable for numerous applications, spanning transportation, healthcare, security, commerce, entertainment, and interdisciplinary research. Currently, visual perception ...

I am interested in mobile robot autonomy. One of the first problems encountered when robots operate outside controlled factory and research environments is the need to perceive their surroundings. My ...

I am looking for new students. My current research focus is enabling robots to learn strategies (tricks, hacks) to do tasks from direct instruction, googling and using the web, observation, and ...

Tackling the questions that systems designers care about, this book brings queueing theory decisively back to computer science. The book is written with computer scientists and engineers in mind and ...