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CHI
2002
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Tangible programming elements for young children
Tangible programming elements offer the dynamic and programmable properties of a computer without the complexity introduced by the keyboard, mouse and screen. This paper explores ...
Peta Wyeth, Helen C. Purchase
JMLR
2012
13 years 1 months ago
Age-Layered Expectation Maximization for Parameter Learning in Bayesian Networks
The expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is a popular algorithm for parameter estimation in models with hidden variables. However, the algorithm has several non-trivial limitat...
Avneesh Singh Saluja, Priya Krishnan Sundararajan,...
JMLR
2012
13 years 1 months ago
Marginal Regression For Multitask Learning
Variable selection is an important and practical problem that arises in analysis of many high-dimensional datasets. Convex optimization procedures that arise from relaxing the NP-...
Mladen Kolar, Han Liu
ASSETS
2000
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
A Java programming tool for students with visual disabilities
This paper reports on a tool for assisting students with visual disabilities in learning how to program. The tool is meant to be used by computer science majors learning the progr...
Ann C. Smith, Joan M. Francioni, Sam D. Matzek
ICML
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
A DC Programming Approach for Sparse Eigenvalue Problem
We investigate the sparse eigenvalue problem which arises in various fields such as machine learning and statistics. Unlike standard approaches relying on approximation of the l0n...
Mamadou Thiao, Pham Dinh Tao, Le Thi Hoai An