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1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Concurrency - The Fly in the Ointment?
Concurrency is a central pillar of the Java programming language, is implicit in the transactional model of computation adopted by most persistent systems, and has been widely stu...
Stephen Blackburn, John N. Zigman
ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Motivated reinforcement learning for non-player characters in persistent computer game worlds
Massively multiplayer online computer games are played in complex, persistent virtual worlds. Over time, the landscape of these worlds evolves and changes as players create and pe...
Kathryn Elizabeth Merrick, Mary Lou Maher
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 5 months ago
Improving the persistence of first-year undergraduate women in computer science
This paper describes a study of undergraduate women's retention in the first-year of the computer science major at the University of Pennsylvania for the purpose of identifyi...
Rita Manco Powell
ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Stoop to Conquer: Posture and Affect Interact to Influence Computer Users' Persistence
RoCo, a novel robotic computer, has the capability to move its monitor in subtly expressive ways that respond to and promote its user’s postural movement. Motivated by Riskind’...
Hyungil Ahn, Alea Teeters, Andrew Wang, Cynthia Br...
TVCG
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Computing Robustness and Persistence for Images
—We are interested in 3-dimensional images given as arrays of voxels with intensity values. Extending these values to a continuous function, we study the robustness of homology c...
Paul Bendich, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Michael Kerber