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SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Thinking about binary trees in an object-oriented world
The Binary Search Tree serves as an important example when teaching data structures. We explore new approaches to understanding the implementation of a Binary Search Tree, using c...
A. Michael Berman, Robert C. Duvall
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
Pride and prejudice: learning how chronically ill people think about food
In this paper, we describe a formative study to learn how one chronically ill population thinks about food, mentally organizes food, and interprets consumption-level icons. We fou...
Katie A. Siek, Kay H. Connelly, Yvonne Rogers
NSPW
2003
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Locality: a new paradigm for thinking about normal behavior and outsider threat
Locality as a unifying concept for understanding the normal behavior of benign users of computer systems is suggested as a unifying paradigm that will support the detection of mal...
John McHugh, Carrie Gates
DEBU
2007
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14 years 11 months ago
Thinking Big About Tiny Databases
Work on early tiny database systems, like TinyDB [17] and Cougar [23] has shown that a declarative approach can provide a powerful and easy to use interface for collecting data fr...
Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Samuel...
KR
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
I Don't Want to Think About it Now: Decision Theory with Costly Computation
Computation plays a major role in decision making. Even if an agent is willing to ascribe a probability to all states and a utility to all outcomes, and maximize expected utility,...
Joseph Y. Halpern