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Majd F.SakrAssociate Teaching Professor
Shamila Khader Phone: +974-4454-8669 Email: skhader @ qatar dot cmu dot edu Short Bio |
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Maxim Makatchev, Reid Simmons, Majd F. Sakr,
"A Cross-cultural Corpus of Annotated Verbal and Nonverbal
Behaviors in Receptionist Encounters," in Gaze in HRI From
Modeling to Communication workshop at 7th ACM/IEEE Int. Conf.
on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Boston, USA, March, 2012.
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Reid Simmons, Maxim Makatchev, Rachel Kirby, Min Kyung Lee,
Imran Fanaswala, Brett Browning, Jodi Forlizzi, Majd F. Sakr,
"Believable Robot Characters," AI Magazine, January 2012.
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Mohammad Hammoud and Majd F. Sakr, "Locality-Aware Reduce Task Scheduling for
MapReduce" In Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on
Cloud Computing and Science (CloudCom 2011), Athens, Greece,
December 2011.
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M. Suhail Rehman, Mohammad Hammoud, Majd F. Sakr, "VOtus: A Flexible And
Scalable Monitoring Framework for Virtualized Clusters" (Poster
Paper), In Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on
Cloud Computing and Science (CloudCom 2011), Athens, Greece,
December 2011.
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Imran Fanaswala, Brett Browning, and Majd Sakr, "Meeting the
Expectations of Arabic Users in HRI" in RSS 2011 Workshop on
Human-Robot Interaction: Perspectives and Contributions to
Robotics from the Human Sciences, Los Angeles, California,
July, 2011. |
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M. Suhail Rehman and Majd F. Sakr, "Teaching the Cloud - Experiences
in Designing and Teaching an Undergraduate-Level Course in Cloud
Computing at the Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar," The International
IEEE EDUCON - Engineering Education 2011, Amman Jordan, 2011.
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Majd F. Sakr, Khaled A. Harras, and Mark J. Stehlik "Computer
What?! Designing Outreach Activities to Introduce Computer Science to K-12 in Qatar," The International
IEEE EDUCON - Engineering Education 2011, Amman Jordan, 2011.
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Khaled A. Harras and Majd F. Sakr "CS: Culture Shock or Computer Science?," The International
IEEE EDUCON - Engineering Education 2011, Amman Jordan, 2011.
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Imran Fanaswala, Brett Browning, and Majd Sakr, "Interactional
disparities in English and Arabic native speakers with a
bi-lingual Robot receptionist" in Late-breaking report at
Int. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Lausanne,
Switzerland, March, 2011. |
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Ameer Abdulsalam and Majd F. Sakr, "Bi-lingual Agent-guided Touch-screen
Interface for Public Information Kiosks,"
2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, Dubai, UAE, February, 2011. |
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Majd F. Sakr, Suhail Rehman, Qutaibah Malluhi, Hussein Alnuweiri,
Mazen Saghir, "Qloud: a cloud computing infrastructure for scientific
applications," Qatar Foundation, Annual Research Forum 2010, Doha Qatar,
December 2010.
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M. Suhail Rehman and Majd F. Sakr, "Initial Findings for Provisioning
Variation in Cloud Computing,"
The 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing, Indianapolis, USA, November, 2010. |
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Maxim Makatchev, Imran Fanaswala, Ameer Abdulsalam, Brett Browning, Wael
Ghazzawi, Majd Sakr and Reid Simmons, "Dialogue Patterns of an
Arabic Robot Receptionist," in Late-breaking report at
Int. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Osaka, Japan, March, 2010. |
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M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, R. Bodik, D.M. Chiarulli, "Optimize,
Target, Fetch and Execute: General Purpose Exectution of Multimedia Applications," in the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at the Design Automation Conference, New Orleans, 2002. |
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Mihai Budiu, Majd Sakr, Kip Walker and Seth Copen Goldstein, "BitValue Inference: Detecting and Exploiting Narrow Bitwidth Computations," Proceedings of Euro-Par 2000 Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1900 by Springer Verlag June 2000. |
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M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, C.L. Giles, D.M. Chiarulli, "Reconfigurable Processor Employing Optical Channels", in Optics in Computing '98, Pierre Chavel, David A. B. Miller, Hugo Thienpont, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3490, pp. 564-7 (1998). |
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M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, C.L. Giles, D.M. Chiarulli, "Reconfigurable Processor Architectures Exploiting High Bandwidth Optical Channels", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), April, 1998. |
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M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, D.M. Chiarulli, B.G. Horne, C.L. Giles, "Predicting Multiprocessor Memory Access Patterns with Learning Models", Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), ed. D. Fisher, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 305-312, July 1997. |
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M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, D.M. Chiarulli, B.G. Horne, C.L. Giles, "Performance of On-Line Learning Methods in Predicting Multiprocessor Memory Access Patterns",Technical Report UMIACS-TR-96-59 and CS-TR-3676 Institute for Advanced Computational Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, September, 1996. |
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M.F. Sakr, C.L. Giles, S.P. Levitan, B.G. Horne, M. Maggini, D.M. Chiarulli, "On-Line Prediction of Multiprocessor Memory Access Patterns", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 1564, June (1996). Best Paper Award |
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M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, C.L. Giles, D.M. Chiarulli, B.G. Horne, M. Maggini, "Predictive Control of Opto-Electronic Reconfigurable Interconnection Networks Using Neural Networks", 2nd International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, (ed.) E. Schenfeld, pp. 326-335, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, October (1995). |
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