This thesis presents Giga-View, a gigapixel image viewer controllable from mobile devices. It's design makes interaction available through a web browser and requires no software installation or high processing power from the device being used. Fulfilling the goal of high throughput and low latency, Giga-View is capable of processing an input stream with the frame rate of 60 frames per second, without ...

Physicians, nurses and other people who work at hospitals and in the healthcare sector often move around a lot. As they also frequently need to contact each other, mobile communication devices like pagers and wireless phones are important tools for letting them maintain contact. This can lead to problems as personnel are constantly interrupted during their work because coworkers don't know whether ...

Collaborative filtering recommender systems have become essential to many Internet services, providing, for instance, book recommendations at Amazon's online e-commerce service, music recommendation in Spotify and movie recommendation in Netflix. Matrix factorization and Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are two popular methods for implementing recommender systems, both providing superior ...

With mobile devices managing more and more of our personal data, for many it has become a ubiquitous resource. This is also true in the workplace where they are instituting Bring Your Own Device practices. While this saves the enterprise money in terms of equipment, it also increases the diversity of devices brought to work. This presents security problems as corporate data received and transmitted ...

Satellites generate data through their instruments as they hover in orbit. Satel- lite data is widely used in weather forecasts, environmental science, for military purposes, earth observation and more. The world depend on satellite data, for many purposes.

Enterprise wireless networks are becoming larger and larger, with more and more users and devices connecting to the networks. This requires the infrastructure to be closely monitored and adjusted to ensure an optimum experience for users and their devices. Existing proprietary solutions exist, but are either costly, resource demanding, rigid or may not be able to deliver the functionality that is ...

Today, computers commonly have graphics hardware with a processing power far exceeding that of the main processors in the same machines. Modern graphics hardware consists of highly data-parallel processors, which are user programmable. However, software development utilizing these processors directly is reserved for platforms that require a fair bit of intimate knowledge about the underlying hardware ...

File synchronization- and hosting services is not only an integrated service in everyday life, but also a powerful tool to support business and organizational activities. In order to provide users with a transparent experience, the systems relies on sophisticated mechanisms to create a seamless integration. The problem with these systems is that they are designed for stable network connections with ...

Digital games do not only serve entertainment purposes, but can also benefit as useful tools for learning. Games that have an explicit and carefully thought-out educational intention has appeared as very productive within health care, and have been used more frequently as part of treatment among children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. Insulin-depended diabetes has no known cure at the present time, ...

1 Abstract Key-value stores have a very large variation in their design and implementation, while still adhering to the key-value abstraction. The available generic benchmarks cannot truly represent the performance a key-value store will have with a specific application, unless your application happens to have the exact same configuration and workloads as the benchmark. Moreover, most benchmarks ...