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CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Comparing the use of tangible and graphical programming languages for informal science education
Much of the work done in the field of tangible interaction has focused on creating tools for learning; however, in many cases, little evidence has been provided that tangible inte...
Michael S. Horn, Erin Treacy Solovey, R. Jordan Cr...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Mechanical Verification of a Garbage Collector
Abstract. We describe how the PVS verification system has been used to verify a safety property of a garbage collection algorithm, originally suggested by Ben-Ari. The safety prope...
Klaus Havelund
JFP
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Hoare type theory, polymorphism and separation
We consider the problem of reconciling a dependently typed functional language with imperative features such as mutable higher-order state, pointer aliasing, and non-termination. ...
Aleksandar Nanevski, J. Gregory Morrisett, Lars Bi...
POPL
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A probabilistic language based upon sampling functions
As probabilistic computations play an increasing role in solving various problems, researchers have designed probabilistic languages that treat probability distributions as primit...
Sungwoo Park, Frank Pfenning, Sebastian Thrun
SIGARCH
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
OpenDF: a dataflow toolset for reconfigurable hardware and multicore systems
This paper presents the OpenDF framework and recalls that dataflow programming was once invented to address the problem of parallel computing. We discuss the problems with an impe...
Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Gordon J. Brebner, Jö...