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IJOE
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Digital Astronomy in Education
: What causes seasons? Why day and night durations are so different with seasons alternation? Why the position of the full moon seems directed to the south in summer while it seems...
Saïd Boutiche
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
93views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and beyond
Our collaboration with Jim Gray has created some of the world's largest astronomy databases, and has enabled us to test many avant-garde ideas in practice. The astronomers ha...
Alexander S. Szalay
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Tangible avatar and tangible earth: a novel interface for astronomy education
The capability to support spatial perception plays an important role in developing material for astronomy education. Considering this, we developed a novel tangible user interface...
Jun Yamashita, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Chiaki Fujimon, Mi...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 1 months ago
Citations and impact of Dutch astronomy
P. Kamphuis, P. C. van der Kruit
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Robust Machine Learning Applied to Terascale Astronomical Datasets
We present recent results from the LCDM3 collaboration between UIUC Astronomy and NCSA to deploy supercomputing cluster resources and machine learning algorithms for the mining of ...
Nicholas M. Ball, Robert J. Brunner, Adam D. Myers