Farmers' voices on the Spoken Web

A network of voice recordings, accessible from any telephone, provides information to farmers in India. Villagers can add their own VoiceSites to promote their business

Spoken Web : la parole aux paysans

Depuis un téléphone, les paysans indiens peuvent accéder à des informations vocales enregistrées et ajouter leurs propres VoiceSites pour promouvoir leur exploitatio

Middleware Architecture for Evaluation and Selection of 3rd Party Web Services for Service Providers

Abstract — This paper presents an architecture to facilitate efficient evaluation and selection of 3rd party web services for service providers. Most service provider architectures have primarily focused on providing web service front ends to legacy systems, aggregating and delivering services via workflows. These architectures primarily considered static business contracts between the service provider and its (webservice enabled) business partners. This approach makes these architectures inflexible to variations in business requirement, partners ’ performance and customer requirements. Our architecture provides a flexible means for service providers to optimize business performance. Based on the historical performance, extant context, and optimising business rules, the appropriate service is selected and invoked to serve a customer request. We have developed a prototype of our system, dubbed ODSS-in-ENDS that integrates business partners and displays the dynamic evaluation and selection of services. I

Farmers' voices on the Spoken Web

A network of voice recordings, accessible from any telephone, provides information to farmers in India. Villagers can add their own VoiceSites to promote their business

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

Extensible syntax in the presence of static analysis : scheme macros meet ML types

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-110).by Ravi A. Nanavati.M.Eng