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FOCS
2008
IEEE
16 years 16 days ago
Kakeya Sets, New Mergers and Old Extractors
A merger is a probabilistic procedure which extracts the randomness out of any (arbitrarily correlated) set of random variables, as long as one of them is uniform. Our main result...
Zeev Dvir, Avi Wigderson
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FOCS
2006
IEEE
16 years 4 days ago
New Results for Learning Noisy Parities and Halfspaces
We address well-studied problems concerning the learnability of parities and halfspaces in the presence of classification noise. Learning of parities under the uniform distributi...
Vitaly Feldman, Parikshit Gopalan, Subhash Khot, A...
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CAD
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A new digital human environment and assessment of vehicle interior design
Vehicle interior design directly relates to driver performance measures such as comfort, efficiency, risk of injury, and vehicle safety. A digital human is a convenient tool for ...
Jingzhou Yang, Joo H. Kim, Karim Abdel-Malek, Timo...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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16 years 28 days ago
Braided teaching in secondary CS education: contexts, continuity, and the role of programming
In this paper, we propose a new approach to thinking about and implementing Computer Science curricula in secondary education. The characteristic feature is to organize the items ...
Arno Pasternak, Jan Vahrenhold
TDP
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Data Access in a Cyber World: Making Use of Cyberinfrastructure
The vast amount of data now collected on human beings and organizations as a result of cyberinfrastructure advances has created similarly vast opportunities for social sc...
Julia Lane, Pascal Heus, Tim Mulcahy