The design and implementation of systems that combine both the utilities of the digital world as well as intrinsic affordances of traditional artifacts are challenging. In this paper, we present „Quickies‟, an attempt to bring one of the most useful inventions of the 20 century into the digital age: the ubiquitous sticky notes. „Quickies‟ enriches the experience of using stickynotes by linking ...

These lecture notes were written for MATH 6710 at Cornell University in the Fall semester of 2013. They were revised in the Fall of 2015 and the schedule on the following page re ects that semester. These notes are for personal educational use only and are not to be published or redistributed. Almost all of the material, much of the structure, and some of the language comes directly from the co...

BACKGROUND The language faculty is probably the most distinctive feature of our species, and endows us with a unique ability to exchange highly structured information. In written language, information is encoded by the concatenation of basic symbols under grammatical and semantic constraints. As is also the case in other natural information carriers, the resulting symbolic sequences show a deli...

The first version of these notes was written for a first-year graduate algebra course. As in most such courses, the notes concentrated on abstract groups and, in particular, on finite groups. However, it is not as abstract groups that most mathematicians encounter groups, but rather as algebraic groups, topological groups, or Lie groups, and it is not just the groups themselves that are of inte...

The immediate goal of the DarkRide music software project is to develop a self-contained computer application in C++ that allows composers to generate original, incompletely specified, pattern-based compositions. A piece of music composed with DarkRide may consist purely of a hierarchy of programmed indications of musical elements such as melodic and harmonic structures, rhythmic motifs, and dy...

PatientNarr summarizes information taken from textual discharge notes written by physicians, and structured nursing documentation. It builds a graph that highlights the relationships between the two types of documentation; and extracts information from the graph for content planning. SimpleNLG is used for surface realization.

Study selection and analysis: Eligible studies compared levels of perceived stress, depression, general subjective well being, physical health, or self-efficacy between a sample of informal caregivers of older adults and a sample of non-caregivers. Exclusions: studies where reported differences between caregivers and non-caregivers could not be converted to standard deviation units (see notes);...

The first edition of these notes was written by Professor Dyson. The second edition was prepared by Michael J. Moravcsik; he is responsible for the changes made in the process of re-editing. A * : complex conjugate transposed (Hermitian conjugate) A + : complex conjugate (not transposed) A : A * β = A * γ 4 = adjoint A −1 = inverse A T = transposed I = identity matrix or operator i

These are notes from the (ongoing) Student Seminar on Geometry of Fundamental Lemmas at Columbia University in Fall 2017, which is organized by Chao Li, Yihang Zhu and myself. A program with more detailed information, written by Chao and Yihang, can be found here.

This document provides an introduction to the research literature on online reputation systems. It has been written with a view to providing background and context for MMAPPS system design plans and is therefore focused on distributed systems. There is a companion annotated bibliography of summary and reading notes for many of the articles discussed in this document in the accompanying References.