SRI International
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Perception of Mercury Contamination By Brazilian Adolescents in a Gold Mining Community: An Ethnographic Approach
This study used ethnographic methods to examine the perception of mercury contamination by adolescents in the mining community of Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
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You can be too rich: mediated communication in a virtual world
In order to understand the benefits and problems that voice brings to virtual worlds, we used qualitative methods to gather and analyze data from Second Life users.
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Performing a wish: desiderative assertions and performativity
This talk shows that assertions of hearer or speaker desires can be used to bring about conduct-guiding performative effects, like those induced by performatively used modals, and that in such uses they give rise to diverse types of speech acts, just like imperatives.
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Application of flexible electronics in novel display systems
In the quest to find new applications for flexible electronics, a novel louver-type display concept is being proposed.
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Flexible electronics and the value of inkjet-printing for displays and sensors
In this talk, an overview of various areas of flexible electronics will be given with focus on inkjet-printing.
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Cancer treatment: Pralatrexate
FDA approval of treatment for peripheral T-cell lymphoma caps decades of SRI research.
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Measurement and intensionality in the semantics of the progressive
This work presents an analysis of the progressive in terms of partial realization of an event description.
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Going from X to Y
An invited presentation at the Texas Linguistics Society about the treatment of from to phrases.
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Controlling data in the cloud: outsourcing computation without outsourcing control
In this white paper, we clearly characterize the problems and their impact on adoption of cloud computing.
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Printed electronics – the impact on electronic displays and sensor devices
In this talk, an overview of various areas of flexible electronics will be given with focus on inkjet-printing.
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Faking contextual data for fun, profit, and privacy
We argue here that the ability to generate convincing fake contextual data can be a basic tool in the fight to preserve privacy.
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Finding “hidden” connections on LinkedIn, an argument for more pragmatic social network privacy
We argue that this tension between social networking goals and privacy suggests that research efforts should be focused more on efficient methods for detecting privacy breaches in social networks, and on building user awareness of privacy risks and the trade-off between privacy and utility.