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CANDC
2009
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
A tale of two online communities: fostering collaboration and creativity in scientists and children
There has been much recent interest in the development of tools to foster remote collaboration and shared creative work. An open question is: what are the guidelines for this proc...
Cecilia R. Aragon, Sarah S. Poon, Andrés Mo...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
MobiSteer: using steerable beam directional antenna for vehicular network access
In this work, we investigate the use of directional antennas and beam steering techniques to improve performance of 802.11 links in the context of communication between a moving v...
Vishnu Navda, Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Kannan Dha...
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Efficient URL caching for world wide web crawling
Crawling the web is deceptively simple: the basic algorithm is (a) Fetch a page (b) Parse it to extract all linked URLs (c) For all the URLs not seen before, repeat (a)?(c). Howev...
Andrei Z. Broder, Marc Najork, Janet L. Wiener