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Csci 49378: Lecture 1: Overview, Bonan Liu, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Lecture for the course: CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing - "Overview" (Week One) delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Csci 49378: Lecture 3: Synchronization, Consistency And Replication, Bonan Liu, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Lecture for the course: CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing - "Synchronization, Consistency and Replication" (Week Three) delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Csci 49378: Final Project Assignment: Distributed Systems And Cloud Computing, Bonan Liu, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Final Project Assignment for the course: "CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing" delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Csci 49378: Lecture 10: Cloud Storage And Databases Ii, Bonan Liu, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Lecture for the course: CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing - "Cloud Storage and Databases II" (Week Ten) delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Csci 49378: Lecture 7: Cloud Systems And Infrastructures I, Bonan Liu, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Lecture for the course: CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing - "Cloud Systems and Infrastructures I" (Week Seven) delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Csci 49378: Lecture 11: Logging, Monitoring, And Advanced Topics, Bonan Liu, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Lecture for the course: CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing - "Logging, Monitoring, and Advanced Topics" (Week Eleven) delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Csci 49378: Lecture 8: Cloud Systems And Infrastructures Ii, Bonan Liu, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Lecture for the course: CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing - "Cloud Systems and Infrastructures II" (Week Eight) delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Csci 49378: Lecture 2: Distributed Systems - Key Concepts & Techniques, Bonan Liu, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Lecture for the course: CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing - "Distributed Systems - Key Concepts & Techniques" (Week Two) delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Csci 49378: Lecture 5: Distributed Web-Based Applications, Bonan Liu, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Lecture for the course: CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing - "Distributed Web-based Applications" (Week five) delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Csci 49378: Lecture 4: Distributed File Systems, Bonan Liu, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Lecture for the course: CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing - "Distributed File Systems" (Week Four) delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Csci 49378: Lecture 6: Cloud Computing Concepts, Bonan Liu, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Lecture for the course: CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing - "Cloud Computing Concepts" (Week Six) delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Csci 49378: Lecture 9: Cloud Storage And Databases I, Bonan Liu, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Lecture for the course: CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing - "Cloud Storage and Databases I" (Week Nine) delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Devops: Architecting Your Infrastructure (Syllabus), Jeremy Andrews, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Syllabus for the "DevOps" course delivered at the City College of New York in Spring 2020 by Jeremy Andrews as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Devops: Lecture 1 - "Overview", Jeremy Andrews, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

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Overview lecture for the "DevOps" course delivered at the City College of New York in Spring 2020 by Jeremy Andrews as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Multimodal Data Integration For Real-Time Indoor Navigation Using A Smartphone, Yaohua Chang

Dissertations and Theses

We propose an integrated solution of indoor navigation using a smartphone, especially for assisting people with special needs, such as the blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals. The system consists of three components: hybrid modeling, real-time navigation, and client-server architecture. In the hybrid modeling component, the hybrid model of a building is created region by region and is organized in a graph structure with nodes as destinations and landmarks, and edges as traversal paths between nodes. A Wi-Fi/cellular-data connectivity map, a beacon signal strength map, a 3D visual model (with destinations and landmarks annotated) are collected while a modeler walks …

A Mobile Cyber-Physical System Framework For Aiding People With Visual Impairment, Martin Goldberg

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

It is a challenging problem for researchers and engineers in the assistive technology (AT) community to provide suitable solutions for visually impaired people (VIPs) through AT to meet orientation, navigation and mobility (ONM) needs. Given the spectrum of assistive technologies currently available for the purposes of aiding VIPs with ONM, our literature review and survey have shown that there is a reluctance to adopt these technological solutions in the VIP community.

Motivated by these findings, we think it critical to re-examine and rethink the approaches that have been taken. It is our belief that we need to take a different …

Open Source Foundations For Spatial Decision Support Systems, Jochen Albrecht

Publications and Research

Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) were a hot topic in the 1990s, when researchers tried to imbue GIS with additional decision support features. Successful practical developments such as HAZUS or CommunityViz have since been built, based on commercial desktop software and without much heed for theory other than what underlies their process models. Others, like UrbanSim, have been completely overhauled twice but without much external scrutiny. Both the practical and the theoretical foundations of decision support systems have developed considerably over the past 20 years. This article presents an overview of these developments and then looks at what corresponding tools …

The Legacy Of Multics And Secure Operating Systems Today, John Schriner

Publications and Research

This paper looks to the legacy of Multics from 1963 and its influence on computer security. It discusses kernel-based and virtualization-based containment in projects like SELinux and Qubes, respectively. The paper notes the importance of collaborative and research-driven projects like Qubes and Tor Project.

Geodesic Merging, Konstantinos Georgatos

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We pursue an account of merging through the use of geodesic semantics, the semantics based on the length of the shortest path on a graph. This approach has been fruitful in other areas of belief change such as revision and update. To this end, we introduce three binary merging operators of propositions defined on the graph of their valuations and we characterize them with a finite set of postulates. We also consider a revision operator defined in the extended language of pairs of propositions. This extension allows us to express all merging operators through the set of revision postulates.

Framing The Question, "Who Governs The Internet?", Robert J. Domanski

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There remains a widespread perception among both the public and elements of academia that the Internet is “ungovernable”. However, this idea, as well as the notion that the Internet has become some type of cyber-libertarian utopia, is wholly inaccurate. Governments may certainly encounter tremendous difficulty in attempting to regulate the Internet, but numerous types of authority have nevertheless become pervasive. So who, then, governs the Internet? This book will contend that the Internet is, in fact, being governed, that it is being governed by specific and identifiable networks of policy actors, and that an argument can be made as to …

On The Nonsymmetric Longer Queue Model: Joint Distribution, Asymptotic Properties, And Heavy Traffic Limits, Charles Knessl, Haishen Yao

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We consider two parallel queues, each with independent Poisson arrival rates, that are tended by a single server. The exponential server devotes all of its capacity to the longer of the queues. If both queues are of equal length, the server devotes of its capacity to the first queue and the remaining to the second. We obtain exact integral representations for the joint probability distribution of the number of customers in this two-node network. Then we evaluate this distribution in various asymptotic limits, such as large numbers of customers in either/both of the queues, light traffic where arrivals are infrequent, …

Centerline Extraction For Image Segmentation Using Gradient And Direction Vector Flow Active Contours, Shuqun Zhang, Jianyang Zhou

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In this paper, we propose a fast centerline extraction method to be used for gradient and direction vector flow of active contours. The gradient and direction vector flow is a recently reported active contour model capable of significantly improving the image segmentation performance especially for complex object shape, by seamlessly integrating gradient vector flow and prior directional information. Since the prior directional information is provided by manual line drawing, it can be inconvenient for inexperienced users who might have difficulty in finding the best place to draw the directional lines to achieve the best segmentation performance. This paper describes a …