Rationalizing a Home Terabyte Server

Teraserver: a Scalable Terabyte Continuous Media Server

Embedded Web Server based Home Appliance Networks

Powerful microcontrollers are used as parts of most home and office appliances of today. Integrating web servers to these intelligent devices will aid in controlling them over the Internet and also in creating effective user interfaces in the form of web pages. Assigning multiple functionalities to a single button on an appliance help manufacturers economize user interfaces, but, this can easil...

Rationalizing Child-Support Decisions

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Rationalizing Internet Safe Harbors

Internet intermediaries – service providers, Web hosting companies, Internet backbone providers, online marketplaces, and search engines – process hundreds of millions of data transfers every day, and host or link to literally tens of billions of items of third party content. They can process and host that data instantaneously only because they automate the process. Some of this content is ille...

Rationalizing Distance Rationalizability

Distance rationalizability is an intuitive paradigm for developing and studying voting rules: given a notion of consensus and a distance function on preference profiles, a rationalizable voting rule selects an alternative that is closest to being a consensus winner. Despite its appeal, distance rationalizability faces the challenge of connecting the chosen distance measure and consensus notion ...