The Implications of the EU ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Law on Web Searches

Since 2013, the Right to Be Forgotten has lived overseas with little chance of coming to the U.S. Some European officials are looking to change this. Read more »

Facebook Enables Celebs to Webcast Live via Mentions App

This is a new live streaming service similar to Meerkat and Periscope, but it has an important differentiator: Only famous people can use it. Read more »

A Survey of Geometric Analysis in Cultural Heritage

We present a review of recent techniques for performing geometric analysis in cultural heritage (CH) applications. The survey is aimed at researchers in the areas of computer graphics, computer vision and CH... Read more »

GE Introduces Predix Cloud to Handle Scale Up to the IoT

Unlike public clouds, Predix Cloud will use a "gated community" model to ensure that tenants of the cloud belong to the industrial ecosystem. Read more »

HUD Opens Its Doors to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online

Microsoft's government cloud efforts gather momentum as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development clears the way for the use of Dynamics CRM Online at the agency. Read more »

Publishing Conglomerate Buys Analytics Provider 1010data

1010data positions itself as the only provider of big data analytics that combines cloud-based service with access to what it calls "disruptive datasets." Read more »

Global Illumination Using Well-Separated Pair Decomposition

Instant radiosity methods rely on using a large number of virtual point lights (VPLs) to approximate global illumination. Efficiency considerations require grouping the VPLs into a small number of clusters that are... Read more »

Anisotropic Strain Limiting for Quadrilateral and Triangular Cloth Meshes

The cloth simulation systems often suffer from excessive extension on the polygonal mesh, so an additional strain-limiting process is typically used as a remedy in the simulation pipeline. A cloth model can... Read more »

Improving Performance of Image Retrieval Based on Fuzzy Colour Histograms by Using Hybrid Colour Model and Genetic Algorithm

A hybrid colour model is a colour descriptor formed by combining channels from several different colour models. Although rarely used in computer graphics applications due to redundancy, hybrid colour models may be... Read more »

Graph-Based Wavelet Representation of Multi-Variate Terrain Data

Terrain data can be processed from the double perspective of computer graphics and graph theory. We propose a hybrid method that uses geometrical and vertex attribute information to construct a weighted graph... Read more »