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ESA
2004
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Classroom Examples of Robustness Problems in Geometric Computations
The algorithms of computational geometry are designed for a machine model with exact real arithmetic. Substituting floating-point arithmetic for the assumed real arithmetic may c...
Lutz Kettner, Kurt Mehlhorn, Sylvain Pion, Stefan ...
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CW
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Supporting Presentation Techniques based on Virtual Humans in Educational Virtual Worlds
Educational Virtual Worlds (EVWs) allow one to circumvent physical, safety, and cost constraints that often affect real-world training and learning scenarios. Virtual humans can i...
Luca Chittaro, Lucio Ieronutti, Sara Rigutti
CHI
2003
ACM
16 years 15 hour ago
A physical interface for system dynamics simulation
We present the System Blocks, a new physical interactive system that makes it easier for kids to explore dynamic systems. A set of computationally enhanced children blocks, made o...
Oren Zuckerman, Mitchel Resnick
HINC
2003
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
The Birth of Simula
When designing Simula, Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard introduced the basic concepts of what later became known as object-orientation, which still, 35 years later, has a profoun...
Stein Krogdahl
SAC
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Semantic information and sensor networks
Embedded Networked Sensing involves untethered, networked devices tightly coupled to the physical world, to monitor and interact with it. Raw sensor observation can be annotated w...
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Joshua Pschorr