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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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15 years 1 months ago
Struggles of new college graduates in their first software development job
How do new college graduates experience their first software development jobs? In what ways are they prepared by their educational experiences, and in what ways do they struggle t...
Andrew Begel, Beth Simon
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SIGKDD
2000
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15 years 1 months ago
Phenomenal Data Mining: From Data to Phenomena
Phenomenal data mining finds relations between the data and the phenomena that give rise to data rather than just relations among the data. For example, suppose supermarket cash r...
John McCarthy
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SYNTHESE
2011
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14 years 8 months ago
Models and the locus of their truth
If models can be true, where is their truth located? Giere (e.g. 1988) has suggested an account of theoretical models on which models themselves are not truth-valued. The paper su...
Uskali Mäki
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CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
The life and death of online gaming communities: a look at guilds in world of warcraft
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) can be fascinating laboratories to observe group dynamics online. In particular, players must form persistent associations or "guil...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...
JCDL
2009
ACM
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15 years 8 months ago
Mobility, digital libraries and a rural indian village
Millions of people in developed countries routinely create and share digital content; but what about the billions of others in on the wrong side of what has been called the ‘glo...
Matt Jones, Emma Thom, David Bainbridge, David Fro...