An Outside Look

Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside?

Over the past thirty years, the field of spoken language processing has made impressive progress from simple laboratory demonstrations to mainstream consumer products. However, commercial applications such as Siri highlight the fact that there is still some way to go in creating Autonomous Social Agents that are truly capable of conversing effectively with their human counterparts in real-world...

thinking outside the skin: look at the thyroid for true diagnosis

keratoderma is a group of disorders characterized by abnormal thickening of skin. acquired palmar keratoderma has many underlying causes. the association of thyroid disease and palmar keratoderma rarely reported. hypothyroidism, although very rare association, must be suspected in patients with acquired ppk, particularly when it occurs in setting of systemic symptoms or predisposing conditions....

Protosolid: An inside look

PROTOSOLID is a solid modeler that represents solids with planar surfaces and manipulates the solids with regularized set operations. This paper looks at the internal structures and operations of PROTOSOLID and is intended as a programmer user guide. A boundary of a solid is represented by a/edge-based data structure. It is developed in ComrnonLisp. IThill work hILS been supported in part by an...

How you feel on the inside could be affecting how you look on the outside.

Bigger, Longer, Fewer: what do cluster jobs look like outside Google?

In the last 5 years, a set of job scheduler logs released by Google has been used in more than 400 publications as the token cloud workload. While this is an invaluable trace, we think it is crucial that researchers evaluate their work under other workloads as well, to ensure the generality of their techniques. To aid them in this process, we analyze three new traces consisting of job scheduler...