Cloudtop

Even as users rely more on the web for their computing needs, they continue to depend on a desktop-like area for quick access to in-use resources. The traditional desktop is file-centric and prone to clutter, making it suboptimal for use in a web-dominated world. This paper introduces Cloudtop, a br...

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Main Authors: Pham, Hubert (Contributor), Mazzola Paluska, Justin (Author), Miller, Robert C. (Contributor), Ward, Steve (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Paluska, Justin Mazzola (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery, 2013-05-30T20:01:13Z.
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