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SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
Scavenger hunt: computer science retention through orientation
This paper describes Scavenger Hunt, a team-based orientation activity for incoming freshmen in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig...
Jerry O. Talton, Daniel L. Peterson, Sam Kamin, De...
IPTPS
2004
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Cluster Computing on the Fly: P2P Scheduling of Idle Cycles in the Internet
— Peer-to-peer computing, the harnessing of idle compute cycles throughout the Internet, offers exciting new research challenges in the converging domains of networking and distr...
Virginia Mary Lo, Daniel Zappala, Dayi Zhou, Yuhon...
CF
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
The potential of the cell processor for scientific computing
The slowing pace of commodity microprocessor performance improvements combined with ever-increasing chip power demands has become of utmost concern to computational scientists. As...
Samuel Williams, John Shalf, Leonid Oliker, Shoaib...
MOBISYS
2005
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Energy efficiency of handheld computer interfaces: limits, characterization and practice
Energy efficiency has become a critical issue for battery-driven computers. Significant work has been devoted to improving it through better software and hardware. However, the hu...
Lin Zhong, Niraj K. Jha
POPL
2009
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Low-pain, high-gain multicore programming in Haskell: coordinating irregular symbolic computations on multicore architectures
With the emergence of commodity multicore architectures, exploiting tightly-coupled parallelism has become increasingly important. Functional programming languages, such as Haskel...
Abdallah Al Zain, Kevin Hammond, Jost Berthold, Ph...