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Factors Affecting the Adoption of Faculty-Developed Academic Software: A Study of Five iCampus Projects
(2007-10-20)
Instruction in higher education must adapt more rapidly to: changes in workforce needs, global issues, advances in disciplines, and resource constraints. The pace of such improvement depends on the speed with which new ...
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Faculty-Developed Academic Software: A Study of Five iCampus Projects
(2007-08-20)
Initiated in 1999, iCampus is a research collaboration between Microsoft Research and MIT whose goal is to create and demonstrate technologies with the potential for revolutionary change throughout the university curriculum. ...
Toward Secure Services from Untrusted Developers
(2007-08-06)
We present a secure service prototype built from untrusted,contributed code.The service manages private data for a variety of different users, anduser programs frequently require access to other users' private data.However, ...
Agent Organization and Request Propagation in the Knowledge Plane
(2007-07-26)
In designing and building a network like the Internet, we continue to face the problems of scale and distribution. In particular, network management has become an increasingly difficult task, and network applications often ...
Learning by Learning To Communicate
(2007-08-23)
Human intelligence is a product of cooperation among many different specialists. Much of this cooperation must be learned, but we do not yet have a mechanism that explains how this might happen for the "high-level" agile ...
Perfect Implementation of Normal-Form Mechanisms
(2005)
Privacy and trust affect our strategic thinking, yet they have not been precisely modeled in mechanism design. In settings of incomplete information, traditional implementations of a normal-form mechanism ---by disregarding ...
Constraint and Restoring Force
(2007-08-24)
Long-lived sensor network applications must be able to self-repair and adapt to changing demands. We introduce a new approach for doing so: Constraint and Restoring Force. CRF is a physics-inspired framework for computing ...
Continuous Space-Time Semantics Allow Adaptive Program Execution
(2007-07)
A spatial computer is a collection of devices filling spacewhose ability to interact is strongly dependent on theirproximity. Previously, we have showed that programmingsuch a computer as a continuous space can allow ...
World Wide Web Without Walls
(2007-08-24)
Today's Web is built upon a particular symbiotic relationship betweensites and users: the sites invest capital to create and market a setof features, and users gain access to the sites often in exchange fortheir data (e.g., ...
Simulation of Human Motion Data using Short-Horizon Model-Predictive Control
(2008-01-15)
Many data-driven animation techniques are capable of producing high quality motions of human characters. Few techniques, however, are capable of generating motions that are consistent with physically simulated environments. ...