Several recent language designs have offered a unified language for programming a distributed system, with explicit notation of locations; we call these “location-aware” lan...
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
Mainstream object-oriented languages, such as C++ and Java1 , provide only a restricted form of polymorphic methods, namely uni-receiver dispatch. In common programming situations...
Christopher Dutchyn, Paul Lu, Duane Szafron, Steve...
We are developing robots with socially appropriate spatial skills not only to travel around or near people, but also to accompany people side-by-side. As a step toward this goal, ...
Economic incentives are a powerful way of shaping consumer behavior towards more commercially efficient and environmentally sustainable patterns. In this paper, we explore the id...