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HICSS
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Celebrating Diversity in Volunteer Computing
The computing resources in a volunteer computing system are highly diverse in terms of software and hardware type, speed, availability, reliability, network connectivity, and othe...
David P. Anderson, Kevin Reed
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The effects of diversity on group productivity and member withdrawal in online volunteer groups
The “wisdom of crowds” argument emphasizes the importance of diversity in online collaborations, such as open source projects and Wikipedia. However, decades of research on di...
Jilin Chen, Yuqing Ren, John Riedl
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Homebrew databases: complexities of everyday information management in nonprofit organizations
Many people manage a complex assortment of digital information in their lives. Volunteer coordinators at nonprofit organizations are no exception; they collectively manage informa...
Amy Voida, Ellie Harmon, Ban Al-Ani
ITICSE
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Teaching programming and language concepts using LEGOs
concepts more concrete. The method has two main learning outcomes: • Language Specification – The goal of the assignment is to be able to build LEGO® creations on a standard g...
Cynthia S. Hood, Dennis J. Hood
CCS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
As-awareness in Tor path selection
Tor is an anonymous communications network with thousands of router nodes worldwide. An intuition reflected in much of the literature on anonymous communications is that, as an a...
Matthew Edman, Paul F. Syverson