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ACMIDC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Tangible programming and informal science learning: making TUIs work for museums
In this paper we describe the design and initial evaluation of a tangible computer programming exhibit for children on display at the Boston Museum of Science. We also discuss fiv...
Michael S. Horn, Erin Treacy Solovey, Robert J. K....
ALENEX
2010
117views Algorithms» more  ALENEX 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Untangling the Braid: Finding Outliers in a Set of Streams
Monitoring the performance of large shared computing systems such as the cloud computing infrastructure raises many challenging algorithmic problems. One common problem is to trac...
Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Luca Foschini, Subhash Suri
SIGOPS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Using model checkers in an introductory course on operating systems
During the last three years, we have been experimenting with the use of the Uppaal model checker in an introductory course on operating systems for first-year Computer Science stu...
Roelof Hamberg, Frits W. Vaandrager
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
TorusDesktop: pointing via the backdoor is sometimes shorter
When pointing to a target on a computer desktop, we may think we are taking the shortest possible path. But new shortcuts become possible if we allow the mouse cursor to jump from...
Stéphane Huot, Olivier Chapuis, Pierre Drag...
ICCV
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Separating Parts from 2D Shapes using Relatability
It's often important to analyze shapes as made up of parts. But there are two ways to think of how parts fit together. We can characterize the remainder of a shape after a pa...
Xiaofeng Mi, Douglas DeCarlo