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Dear fellow researchers, I am currently writing an edited book, for which I am soliciting authors to write chapters. The book has Applications, Infrastructure, and many other exciting sections....
05 May 2014 6,313 13 View
One of my main research topics is MEDICAL CLOUD COMPUTING. This is the ability to run medical applications in the cloud: Instead of the data center operated by the hospitals, medical applications...
04 April 2014 1,295 29 View
I remember the early days of my teaching, when I had to provide a simple example computer program to calculate 9/4=2.25. I would teach it like this: *** CASE 1: Use two variables a, and b that...
02 February 2014 7,396 34 View
Folks, here is a typical scenario for me: I work so hard for a research proposal, and it looks good, but that one "punch line" is missing ... Something really creative that will make the proposal...
01 January 2014 8,380 90 View
Here is what drove me to ask this question: Last year, I was teaching a class and I had to move the classroom for one day. So, I sent an email to the students: *** EMAIL1: Dear students, I am...
01 January 2014 5,138 96 View
Sometimes, the upvotes/downvotes you receive on RG could be a useful indication of what the listeners are thinking. It is almost as if you are reading their minds, without actually having them...
12 December 2013 2,950 77 View
During my chit-chats on RG, I discovered a very interesting problem that I didn't know existed before: Academicians from resource-deprived countries can conduct great research, however, they...
12 December 2013 2,555 87 View
I am going to teach a required Freshmen class to 50 students from 7 different engineering disciplines. I taught it last year, and it was the most challenging teaching experience I had, since it...
12 December 2013 7,811 90 View
Organizations like RG allowed international researchers to make contact in ways that wasn't imaginable just a few years ago. Since collaborative research is very fruitful and can cover many...
12 December 2013 3,857 6 View
It used to be that when we were writing a paper or a research proposal, when one of the co-authors went to a conference in a different country, or on vacation, we would have to wait until (s)he...
12 December 2013 4,149 82 View
Dear colleagues, Myself and a few colleagues published a few papers describing a platform to allow real-time applications, such as face recognition, to be executed from mobile devices, by using...
11 November 2013 3,553 9 View
Sorry, this question proved to be too difficult to ask. I am deleting it. Thank you all for contributions.
11 November 2013 732 6 View
I am doing a survey on existing biometric identifiers. I would appreciate feedback from you on existing identifiers, and their known issues. The few I know are: Retina, fingerprint, voice, face Is...
10 October 2013 4,058 11 View
Human brain is an amazing thing. What we call intelligence puzzled scientists for decades. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not reach any level close to a human brain any time soon. Humans are...
10 October 2013 9,191 87 View
I am keeping the term "fascinating" very open-ended. I am doing a survey of who you think are the most fascinating 3 to 5 scientific characters of our history ? Any field, any discipline. Please...
10 October 2013 7,854 59 View
The amount of data that is processed annually has exceeded the zettabyte boundary. This is a number that would only be mentioned in highly theoretical articles 2, 3 decades ago. Such...
09 September 2013 2,469 7 View
If you look at the trend in the past ten years, pretty much starting with the Ipod's, there has been a shift towards Apple products and/or OS's. Today, we can no longer separate mobile devices...
09 September 2013 2,313 13 View
I wrote a paper in ISCA with two collaborators, in which we investigate the possibility of performing computation with STT-MRAM memory technologies where WRITE OPERATIONS are very expensive (5x...
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