Celebrating Imperfection through Perfect Images: Guillermo del Toro’s Work

Celebrating life stories through music.

Music has always been a meaningful part of my life. I have been studying and performing since the age of five, but it was not until I was an adult, when my father was approaching the end of his life, that I realized just how profound the connection to music can be. While my father’s health was in decline, our strongest connections came from listening to music together. Listening to music that h...

Celebrating diversity: Extending the World-Wide Web for cooperative work

Despite the growth of interest in the field of CSCW, and the increasingly large number of systems which have been developed, it is still the case that few systems have been adopted for widespread use. To gain such adoption involves migrating systems which currently exist as research prototypes out of the laboratory and into the wider environment, requiring developers to address problems such as...

Perfect and nearly perfect sampling of work-conserving queues

We present sampling-based methods to treat work-conserving queueing systems. A variety of models are studied. Besides the First Come First Served (FCFS) queues, many efforts are putted on the accumulating priority queue (APQ), where a customer accumulates priority linearly while waiting. APQs have Poisson arrivals, multi-class customers with corresponding service durations, and single or multip...

Celebrating the life and work of Maria Petrou

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2014.06.004 0167-8655/ 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V. This Special Edition in Celebration of Maria Petrou, was conceived shortly after she died in October 2012 and was in response to friends and colleagues who wanted to remember both her personal warmth and exceptional scientific achievements. The idea was to have a variety of contributions including novel sc...

Celebrating the work of William T. Carpenter Jr.