The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon, where he was the co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). He ...

You can also download this data in Excel format. Individuals can be contacted using the SCS Directory: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/directory Internships are typically taken ...

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or ...

My name is Yige Hong, I'm a sixth-year Ph.D. student at Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University. I'm very fortunate to be advised by Professor Weina Wang . I work on the performance ...

I wrote this article in 1994 in response to a request posted to a discussion group. Since then, I've seen it in various places around the Net. This version is essentially the same as the earlier, but ...

Simulated Annealing (SA) is an effective and general form of optimization. It is useful in finding global optima in the presence of large numbers of local optima. “Annealing” refers to an analogy with ...

Developable surfaces are those that can be made by smoothly bending flat pieces without stretching or shearing. We introduce a definition of developability for triangle meshes which exactly captures ...

The following is the Java counterpart of the C++ program shown in the BLADE tutorial. A point to note is that in addition to JBlade and JBladeParams, the program also imports the class JBladeHelper.

Define state-value and (true) state value of an MDP Define Q-value and (true) Q value of an MDP The idea of discounting stems from the common idea that a reward now is better than the same reward ...

Hi! We are Wang Ling and Guang Xiang from the Language Technologies Institute in Carnegie Mellon University. This is a practical guide for programmers and researchers who intend to use Sina Weibo's ...

At the SEI, I am in the Performance Critical Systems group in the Dynamic Systems initiative where I develop architecture analyses and architectural analysis tools for real-time and embedded systems.