Publications
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Modeling the Impact of Formal and Informal Supports for Young Children with Disabilities and Their Families
Findings reinforce the role of high-quality services in maximizing perceived impact. They also highlight the important role of informal support in promoting optimism and confidence in parenting. Poverty status, minority…
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Capturing and Answering Questions Posed to a Knowledge-Based System
As part of the ongoing project, Project Halo, our goal is to build a system capable of answering questions posed by novice users to a formal knowledge base. In our…
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Introduction to Build It Workshop
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Usable security: oxymoron or challenge?
Review talk discussing results from the literature on password usability, and our own work on wireless security and usable remote access to data.
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Usable security: oxymoron or challenge?
Review talk discussing results from the literature on password usability, and our own work on wireless security and usable remote access to data.
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Compact and fast interrogation unit for fiber Bragg grating sensors
Abstract We present a compact and fast wavelength monitor capable of resolving pm wavelength changes. A photosensor array or position detector element is coated with a linear variable filter, which…
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Catalyzing Network Expertise: Year 1 Report
The primary goal of this study is to examine change linked to new institutional pressures on schools brought about by the threat of sanctions under the federal No Child Left…
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Pose-Encoded Spherical Harmonics for Face Recognition and Synthesis Using a Single Image
In this paper, we propose to address one of the most challenging scenarios in face recognition. That is, to identify a subject from a test image that is acquired under…
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Speaker Recognition with Session Variability Normalization Based on MLLR Adaptation Transforms
We present a new modeling approach for speaker recognition that uses the maximum-likelihood linear regression (MLLR) adaptation transforms employed by a speech recognition system as features for support vector machine…
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An Unfinished Canvas: Arts Education in California: Taking Stock of Policies and Practices – Full Report
This study has sought to take stock of California's arts education policies and practices: understanding where schools’ arts programs are relative to state goals, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of…
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An Unfinished Canvas: Arts Education in California: Taking Stock of Policies and Practices – Summary Report
This first-ever comprehensive study of the state of arts education in California has sought to fill the current information gap by taking stock of arts education policies and practices.
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Detecting and Summarizing Action Items in Multi-Party Dialogue
This paper addresses the problem of identifying action items discussed in open-domain conversational speech, and does so in two stages: firstly, detecting the subdialogues in which action items are proposed,…