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ITICSE
2004
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Use of large databases for group projects at the nexus of teaching and research
Final year, group (capstone) projects in computing disciplines are often expected to fill multiple roles: in addition to allowing students to learn important domain-specific knowl...
Richard C. Thomas, Rebecca Mancy
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CHI
1998
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
The Progress Portfolio: Designing Reflective Tools for a Classroom Context
A great deal of effort has gone into developing open-ended inquiry activities for science education as well as complex computer tools for accessing scientific data to help student...
Ben Loh, Josh Radinsky, Eric Russell, Louis M. Gom...
93
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SIGECOM
2009
ACM
73views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
15 years 7 months ago
But who will monitor the monitor?
Consider a group of individuals in a strategic environment with moral hazard and adverse selection, and suppose that providing incentives for a given outcome requires a monitor to...
David M. Rahman
ISWC
1998
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Visual Contextual Awareness in Wearable Computing
Small, body-mounted video cameras enable a different style of wearable computing interface. As processing power increases, awearablecomputercanspendmoretimeobserving its user to p...
Thad Starner, Bernt Schiele, Alex Pentland
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CORR
2008
Springer
106views Education» more  CORR 2008»
15 years 17 days ago
Distributed Algorithms for Computing Alternate Paths Avoiding Failed Nodes and Links
A recent study characterizing failures in computer networks shows that transient single element (node/link) failures are the dominant failures in large communication networks like...
Amit M. Bhosle, Teofilo F. Gonzalez