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JOCN
2010
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15 years 3 months ago
Refreshing and Integrating Visual Scenes in Scene-selective Cortex
■ Constructing a rich and coherent visual experience involves maintaining visual information that is not perceptually available in the current view. Recent studies suggest that ...
Soojin Park, Marvin M. Chun, Marcia K. Johnson
PPOPP
2012
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
Chestnut: a GPU programming language for non-experts
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are powerful devices capable of rapid parallel computation. GPU programming, however, can be quite difficult, limiting its use to experienced prog...
Andrew Stromme, Ryan Carlson, Tia Newhall
LION
2007
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
Learning While Optimizing an Unknown Fitness Surface
This paper is about Reinforcement Learning (RL) applied to online parameter tuning in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) methods. In particular a novel application of RL is considered i...
Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Paolo Campigotto
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CCR
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
FIE: future internet enervation
I'm so Bored of the Future Internet (FI). There are so many initiatives to look at the Internet's Future1 , anyone would think that there was some tremendous threat like...
Jon Crowcroft
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Reduced empathizing skills increase challenges for user-centered design
User-Centered Design is surprisingly difficult. One of the biggest issues, certainly for those with no HCI or usability experience, is a lack of appreciation of how users think an...
William Hudson