Given the large communication overheads characteristic of modern parallel machines, optimizations that eliminate, hide or parallelize communication may improve the performance of ...
116 views167 votes15 years 7 months ago SIGCSE 2008»
In this paper, we introduce socially relevant computing as a new way to reinvigorate interest in computer science. Socially relevant computing centers on the use of computation to...
Matrix computation algorithms often exhibit dependencies between neighboring elements inside loop nests such that the frontier between computed elements and those to be computed w...
162 views210 votes16 years 1 months ago HPCC 2007»
The purpose of virtual computing environment is to improve resource utilization by providing a unified integrated operating platform for users and applications based on aggregation...
212 views202 votes16 years 8 months ago SIGCSE 2009»
This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a program that uses active recruiting and peer-led team learning to try to increase the participation and success of wome...
One fundamental task to realize the envisioned ubiquitous computing paradigm is the proper management of the data generated in this environment. The special characteristics of high...
113 views223 votes15 years 9 months ago TREC 2004»
Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
176 views166 votes16 years 9 months ago CVPR 2008»
Nonlinear registration is mostly performed after initialization by a global, linear transformation (in this work, we focus on similarity transformations), computed by a linear reg...