Publications
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Usable security: oxymoron or challenge?
Review talk discussing results from the literature on password usability, and our own work on wireless security and usable remote access to data.
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Compact and fast interrogation unit for fiber Bragg grating sensors
Abstract We present a compact and fast wavelength monitor capable of resolving pm wavelength changes. A photosensor array or position detector element is coated with a linear variable filter, which…
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Resolving ”You” in Multi-Party Dialog
This paper presents experiments into the resolution of “you” in multi-party dialog, dividing this process into two tasks: distinguishing between generic and referential uses; and then, for referential uses, identifying…
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Catalyzing Network Expertise: Year 1 Report
The primary goal of this study is to examine change linked to new institutional pressures on schools brought about by the threat of sanctions under the federal No Child Left…
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Pose-Encoded Spherical Harmonics for Face Recognition and Synthesis Using a Single Image
In this paper, we propose to address one of the most challenging scenarios in face recognition. That is, to identify a subject from a test image that is acquired under…
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Speaker Recognition with Session Variability Normalization Based on MLLR Adaptation Transforms
We present a new modeling approach for speaker recognition that uses the maximum-likelihood linear regression (MLLR) adaptation transforms employed by a speech recognition system as features for support vector machine…
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An Unfinished Canvas: Arts Education in California: Taking Stock of Policies and Practices – Full Report
This study has sought to take stock of California's arts education policies and practices: understanding where schools’ arts programs are relative to state goals, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of…
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An Unfinished Canvas: Arts Education in California: Taking Stock of Policies and Practices – Summary Report
This first-ever comprehensive study of the state of arts education in California has sought to fill the current information gap by taking stock of arts education policies and practices.
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Detecting and Summarizing Action Items in Multi-Party Dialogue
This paper addresses the problem of identifying action items discussed in open-domain conversational speech, and does so in two stages: firstly, detecting the subdialogues in which action items are proposed,…
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Medical Device Applications of Dielectric Elastomer- Based Artificial Muscles for Mpmd 2007, Palm Desert, California
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An Unfinished Canvas – Arts Education in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Supplementary Status Report
The research supporting An Unfinished Canvas was undertaken to document the status of arts education in California schools and assess the extent to which schools were meeting state goals for…
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Textual inference logic: take two
This note describes a logical system based on concepts and contexts, whose aim is to serve as a representation language for meanings of natural language sentences.