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SI3D
2009
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
Soft irregular shadow mapping: fast, high-quality, and robust soft shadows
We introduce a straightforward, robust, and efficient algorithm for rendering high-quality soft shadows in dynamic scenes. Each frame, points in the scene visible from the eye ar...
Gregory S. Johnson, Warren A. Hunt, Allen Hux, Wil...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Extending query translation to cross-language query expansion with markov chain models
Dictionary-based approaches to query translation have been widely used in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) experiments. Using these approaches, translation has been not...
Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai
ITICSE
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Experience report: CS1 for majors with media computation
Previous reports of a media computation approach to teaching programming have either focused on pre-CS1 courses or courses for non-majors. We report the adoption of a media comput...
Beth Simon, Päivi Kinnunen, Leo Porter, Dov Z...
ICFP
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
iTasks: executable specifications of interactive work flow systems for the web
In this paper we introduce the iTask system: a set of combinators to specify work flows in a pure functional language at a very high level of abstraction. Work flow systems are au...
Rinus Plasmeijer, Peter Achten, Pieter W. M. Koopm...
CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 9 months ago
Garbage Collection for Multicore NUMA Machines
Modern high-end machines feature multiple processor packages, each of which contains multiple independent cores and integrated memory controllers connected directly to dedicated p...
Sven Auhagen, Lars Bergstrom, Matthew Fluet, John ...