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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
171views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Contributing student pedagogy
A Contributing Student Pedagogy (CSP) is a pedagogy that encourages students to contribute to the learning of others and to value the contributions of others. CSP in formal educat...
John Hamer, Quintin I. Cutts, Jana Jacková,...
CSCW
2004
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Domestic Routines and Design for the Home
The domestic environment is predicted by market analysts to be the major growth area in computing over the next decade, yet it is a poorly understood domain at the current time of...
Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden
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CDC
2010
IEEE
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14 years 11 months ago
A distributed Newton method for Network Utility Maximization
Most existing work uses dual decomposition and subgradient methods to solve Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problems in a distributed manner, which suffer from slow rate of con...
Ermin Wei, Asuman E. Ozdaglar, Ali Jadbabaie
TOMACS
2011
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14 years 11 months ago
The double CFTP method
We consider the problem of the exact simulation of random variables Z that satisfy the distributional identity Z L = V Y + (1 − V )Z, where V ∈ [0, 1] and Y are independent, an...
Luc Devroye, Lancelot F. James
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
167views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 4 months ago
Python CS1 as preparation for C++ CS2
How suitable is a Python-based CS1 course as preparation for a C++-based CS2 course? After fifteen years of using C++ for both CS1 and CS2, the Computer Science Department at Mich...
Richard J. Enbody, William F. Punch, Mark McCullen