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CHI
2000
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
The social life of small graphical chat spaces
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...
Marc A. Smith, Shelly Farnham, Steven M. Drucker
ACMSE
2011
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Targeting FPGA-based processors for an implementation-driven compiler construction course
This paper describes the adaptation of a modern compiler construction course to target an FPGA-based hardware platform used throughout our computer science curriculum. One of the ...
D. Brian Larkins, William M. Jones
ITICSE
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Self-efficacy and mental models in learning to program
Learning to program is a unique experience for each student, and it is not fully understood why one person in an introductory programming course learns to program better and more ...
Vennila Ramalingam, Deborah LaBelle, Susan Wiedenb...
CORR
2007
Springer
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14 years 10 months ago
High Performance Direct Gravitational N-body Simulations on Graphics Processing Units
We present the results of gravitational direct N-body simulations using the commercial graphics processing units (GPU) NVIDIA Quadro FX1400 and GeForce 8800GTX, and compare the re...
Simon Portegies Zwart, Robert G. Belleman, Peter G...
ICFP
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A functional I/O system or, fun for freshman kids
Functional programming languages ought to play a central role in mathematics education for middle schools (age range: 10?14). After all, functional programming is a form of algebr...
Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew ...