SRI International
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Random acts of kindness: the intelligent and context-aware future of reciprocal altruism and community collaboration
This paper highlights the possibilities for today’s researchers and innovators to turbocharge community collaboration by developing the required technologies.
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FERN: a unifying framework for name resolution across heterogeneous architectures
We introduce FERN (Federated Extensible Resolution of Names), the first framework designed to enable efficient name resolution across heterogeneous name resolution systems operating in dynamic or static networks.
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One Umbrella Term for All Autism Cases May Lead to More Personalized Support Services
A lot has changed since 1994. Back then, if you asked people what autism was, most would scratch their heads and respond, “You mean like that character in the movie Rain Man?” Ask the question in 2013 and you’re likely to find that many more Americans have not only heard of autism, but may be…
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SRI Innovation: Touching Our Lives Every Day
Though I spent almost my entire professional life at SRI, given a researcher’s necessary preoccupations it took effort to learn what was happening across this diverse place of intrinsic creativity. This became more apparent when I began compiling an account of that creativity, some of which turned out to alter the world. SRI’s new timeline of…
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A Blood Test to Identify Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, killing nearly 30,000 per year. In 2004, I attended a conference where one of the nation’s leading researchers in the field declared that the gold-standard test for this disease was not successful at identifying dangerous invasive tumors. That triggered my interest in how to…
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Testing a novel parking system: on-street reservations
We developed a novel parking system that allows people to reserve on-street parking, meant to reduce congestion, increase convenience, and raise revenue.
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Echoes from the past: how technology mediated reflection improves well-being
We built Echo, a smartphone application for recording everyday experiences and reflecting on them later.
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Fisheye Word Cloud for temporal sentiment exploration
This poster abstract presents a new word cloud technique, the Fisheye Word Cloud, for exploring time-series data in a focused+context approach to analyzing word data.
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Electrodynamics of the High-Latitude Trough: Its Relationship with Convection Flows and Field-Aligned Currents
We present a detailed case study of the electrodynamics of a high-latitude trough observed on 8 March 2008 using multiple instruments.
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Retrieval of Cirrus Properties by Sun Photometry: A New Perspective on an Old Issue
In the present work, we propose a new approach that uses the total measured irradiance to derive cirrus COT and ice particle effective diameter (Deff).
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3D Visual Proxemics: Recognizing Human Interactions in 3D from a Single Image
We present a unified framework for detecting and classifying people interactions in unconstrained user generated images.
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Evidence of Oxidative Stress in Young and Aged DJ-1-Deficient Mice
Here, we investigate the impact of aging and DJ-1 deficiency in transgenic mice.