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SIGCSE
1999
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Computer science and general education: Java, graphics, and the Web
We describe a Computer Science General Education course offered at Hope College. This course stressesproblem-solving. It uses traditional concepts of programming, but does it with...
Gordon Stegink, Jon Pater, Daron Vroon II
CIKM
1998
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Continual Computation Policies for Utility-Directed Prefetching
People accessing documents via the Internet typically experience latencies in retrieving content. We discuss continual-computation policies that dictate strategies for prefetching...
Eric Horvitz
ESANN
2001
15 years 3 months ago
A computational model of monkey grating cells for oriented repetitive alternating patterns
In 1992 neurophysiologists [5] found an new type of cells in areas V1 and V2 of the monkey primary visual cortex, which they called grating cells. These cells respond vigorously to...
Tino Lourens, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi G. Okuno, ...
IWUC
2004
15 years 3 months ago
On Uncertainty in Context-Aware Computing: Appealing to High-Level and Same-Level Context for Low-Level Context Verification
There is an inherent chasm between the real-world and the world that can be perceived by computer systems, yielding uncertainty and ambiguity in system perceived context, with cons...
Amir Padovitz, Seng Wai Loke, Arkady B. Zaslavsky
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CONTEXT
2003
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
GRAVA: An Architecture Supporting Automatic Context Transitions and Its Application to Robust Computer Vision
We describe a software development approach for vision that enhances robustness by making novel use of context. Conventional approaches to most image understanding problems suffe...
Paul Robertson, Robert Laddaga