Modern websites and web applications commonly integrate third-party and user-generated content to enrich their users’ experience. Developers of these applications are in need of a simple way to limit the capabilities of this less trusted, outsourced content and thereby protect their users from cross-site scripting attacks. We summarize several recent proposals that enable developers to isolate ...

Synchronization of speech, facial expressions and body gestures is one of the most critical problems in realistic avatar animation in virtual environments. In this paper, we address this problem by proposing a new high-level animation language to describe avatar animation. The Avatar Markup Language (AML), based on XML, encapsulates the Text to Speech, Facial Animation and Body Animation in a u...

Password-based authentication is the most widely used authentication scheme for granting access to user accounts on the Internet. Despite this, there exists no standard implementation of passwords by services. They have different password requirements as well as interfaces and procedures for login, password change, and password reset. This situation is very challenging for users and often leads...

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), a key building block of the World Wide Web, has succeeded to enable information exchange worldwide. Since its first version in 1996, HTTP/1.0, the average number of inlined objects and average total bytes per webpage have been increasing significantly for desktops and mobiles, from 1-10 objects in 1996 to more than 100 objects in June 2014. Even if the re...

Non-adherence to prescribed medical treatment is a major health problem especially with chronic diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, Tuberculosis and Malaria for which medication adherence is very critical especially in outpatient setting. This paper presents a voice-based mobile medical alert system (Voice MedAlert) for outpatient adherence. The system runs on client server architecture respon...

One of the principal impediments to debugging and monitoring distributed systems is the diiculty of implementing the required infrastructure. If remote de-bugging and monitoring were universally available at low cost and with minimal implementation eeort it might lead to increases in the integrity and robustness of distributed systems. We describe a technique that brings universal distributed d...