Colloquium

In this talk, I will present our recent research on our ARTS project.

Current cameras capture instants in time and space. But there is something just beyond the reach of the camera that our minds seem to capture quite well: moments. We remember moments. We'd like to share moments. We want to capture moments.

Virtual Internets (VIs) are emerging as a useful tool for managing shared testbed infrastructure, as well as supporting emerging protocols and systems in an extension of the Internet architecture.

We discuss the online index-merging problem: documents arrive at a system continuously, and must be immediately indexed for fulltext search. Meanwhile, the system is continuously answering queries on its fulltext index. The system is I/O-limited, so a single online indexing data structure (e.g.

The Protein Data Bank is the international repository for the structures of all biological macromolecules. The ways in which the data are represented, collected, archived, and queried will be described.

With the enormous growth of wide-area networks, especially the Internet, one research focus within the operating systems community has moved to building coherent systems that can connect together a billion users who collectively have a trillion objects. No existing system can handle this.

Complete and robust intelligent agents capable of facing complex environments require an effective integation of perception, cognition, and action.

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is the task of building an accurate map of an environment without getting lost in the process. This problem is of great significance in robotics for situations in which an accurate global position sensor, such as GPS, is not available.

The ability to collect, store, and manage data is increasing quickly, yet our ability to understand it remains constant.