We are stuck in a world where our digital life is confined into virtual windows that clutter computer screens everywhere. Tangible Windows allow you to break out of this prison by pushing windows into the real world. Instead of interacting with your applications through virtual rectangles, you can hold them in your hands, embed them in your environment, and take them with you. Tangible Windows ...

The primary goal of most OSs (Operating Systems) is the efficient use of computer systems software and hardware resources. Since Windows OSs are most widely used OS for personal computers, they need to satisfy needs of all different kind of computer systems users. In comparison with Windows XP, new versions of the Windows OS; namely Windows Vista and Windows 7, introduce a number of new feature...

Detecting windows in urban environments is an essential task when reconstructing buildings from photographs. Recent work on city wide reconstruction has been focusing on capturing the details on building facades using both images and LIDAR data. However, segmenting and detecting windows in practice remains a manual and tedious task. In this report, we apply techniques used in face detection to ...

In this paper we study number fields which are Euclidean with respect to a function different from the absolute value of the norm. We also show that the Euclidean minimum with respect to weighted norms may be irrational and not isolated.

server products to provide interoperability between desktop personal computers (PCs) running the Microsoft Windows operating system and remote hosts running the X Window System operating system under the UNIX or OpenVMS operating systems. The first version of the eXcursion X server was a 16-bit application written specifically for Microsoft Windows versions 3.0 and 3.1. As the popularity of Win...