Personal development plans: making them work, making them count

Making Them Dance

In this paper, we provide a method to generate a perceptually appropriate dance motion for an input music sound track. Our solution extracts musical features from input music and searches for a sequence of perceptually correlated motion segments from a dance motion database. We suggest a set of mapping criteria as well as motion features which are necessary to perform the mapping from music to ...

HTML & TEX : Making them sweat

HTML is often criticised for its presentation-oriented conception. But it does contain sufficient structural information for many everyday purposes and this has led to its development into a more stable form. Future platforms for the World Wide Web may support other applications of SGML, and the present climate of popularity of the Web is a suitable opportunity for consolidation of the more sta...

Production Database Systems: Making Them Easy is Hard Work

Enterprise capable database products have evolved into incredibly complex systems, some of which present hundreds of configuration parameters to the system administrator. So, while the processing and storage costs for maintaining large volumes of data have plummeted, the human costs associated with maintaining the data have continued to rise. In this presentation, we discuss the framework and a...

Medicare HMOs: Making Them Work for the Chronically Ill (review)

Encoding New Episodes and Making Them Stick

How do we encode, store, and retrieve new episodic memories, and what are the computations performed by the hippocampus during this process? One system that has been used to model the brain basis of episodic memory in humans is the study of spatial navigation by path integration in rodents. Here I discuss three exciting new findings focused on encoding or replay of spatial sequences in the rat ...