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Focusing on Shared Experiences: Moving beyond the camera in video communication

Jed R. Brubaker, Gina Venolia, John Tang

Proc. DIS 2012 | June 2012

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Scalable Influence Maximization for Independent Cascade model in Large-scale Social Networks

Chi Wang, Wei Chen, Yajun Wang

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal | May 2012, Vol 25(3): pp. 545-576

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Optimal Bidding Strategies and Equilibria in Dynamic Auctions with Budget Constraints

Ramakrishna Gummadi, Peter Key, Alexandre Proutiere

May 2012

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2066175

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Question-Generation Corpus

This corpus contains 2,250 candidate fill-in-the-blank questions and answers generated from sentences taken from 105 articles on Wikipedia’s listing of vital articles and popular pages, along with ratings of the question quality from multiple judges,…

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Critical Questions for Big Data: Provocations for a Cultural, Technological, and Scholarly Phenomenon

danah boyd, Kate Crawford

Information, Communication & Society | Published by Taylor & Francis | 2012 | Information, Communication & Society edition

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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done

May 9, 2012 | Peter Bregman

Strategic advisor, Peter Bregman, explains how busy people can create a plan for managing their day in just 18 minutes. Bregman works from the premise that the best way to combat constant and distracting interruptions…