INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 245 I. BACKGROUND OF PIRACY IN CHINA .................................................. 246 A. Piracy Today and the Increase in Internet Users .................. 246 B. History of Piracy as an Acceptable Practice in Chinese Culture .....................................................................

Thanks to Web 2.0 and socio-technical environments, we need to shift the paradigm in current conceptual framework for interactive systems from professionally dominated cultures to democratized design cultures. With this paradigm shift, it requires us to use better output filters. I have addressed the mechanisms to build effective output filters and the ways to increase the social creativity of ...

Accurate real-time tracking of influenza outbreaks helps public health officials make timely and meaningful decisions that could save lives. We propose an influenza tracking model, ARGO (AutoRegression with GOogle search data), that uses publicly available online search data. In addition to having a rigorous statistical foundation, ARGO outperforms all previously available Google-search-based t...

How to bid on a Google shopping account (set of shopping campaigns) with query-level matching like in Google Adwords.

Building products for Google-scale presents some unique challenges in the software development and operational spheres. Through exploring techniques relating to design, development, configuration, deployment and monitoring the talk will describe how Google delivers high availability products with low latency to millions of customers worldwide. Profile. Ollie Cook is a site reliability manager a...

The Google’s frugal Cardboard solution for immersive Virtual Reality (VR) experiences has come a long way in the VR market. The Google Cardboard VR applications will support us in the fields such as education, virtual tourism, entertainment, gaming, design etc. Recently, Qualcomm’s Vuforia SDK has introduced support for developing mixed reality applications for Google Cardboard which can combin...

Current autonomous driving technology heavily relies on a special sensor, Velodyne Sensor, and a detailed precision map. From Darpa Grand Challenge in 2005 to current Google Car, Velodyne Lidar sensors are used widely. They could provide 360 degree real-time 3D distance map by illuminating environment with lasers and analyzing the reflect light. The 3D distance map can be used in obstacle detec...

Various studies within NLP and Semantic Web use the so-called Google count, which is the hit count on a query returned by a search engine (not only Google). However, sometimes the Google count is unreliable, especially when the count is large, or when advanced operators such as OR and NOT are used. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm that estimates the Google count robustly. It (i) uses...

We analyse pricing, e¤ort and tipping decisions in the online service ‘Google Answers’. While users set a price for the answer to their question ex ante, they can additionally give a tip to the researcher ex post. The obtained data set is analysed and compared to the results of similar laboratory experiments, namely Fehr, Gächter and Kirchsteiger (1997) and Gächter and Falk (2002). Reciprocal t...

Sir, I was recently on call for nephrology, and something happened. I was rung by a first year junior doctor at 1 am, saying that a patient's 'MEWS score was 6'. The patient had had a renal transplant that day. A score of 6 is very high. It should trigger a rapid senior review, and possible intensive care re-ferral. Modified early warning score (MEWS) is an electronic early warning score based ...