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CHI
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Knowledge in the head and on the web: using topic expertise to aid search
The importance of background knowledge for effective searching on the Web is not well understood. Participants were given trivia questions on two topics and asked to answer them f...
Geoffrey B. Duggan, Stephen J. Payne
HICSS
2005
IEEE
130views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Knowledge Flow in Interdisciplinary Teams
Knowledge flow in interdisciplinary teams has become of particular interest as research and alliances cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, and as computing is applied in any...
Caroline Haythornthwaite
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
114views Education» more  SIGCSE 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
Gender and information technology: implications of definitions
In this paper, we examine implications of definitions of information technology to women's participation in the industry and in academe. This paper is exploratory only, based...
Wendy L. Cukier, Denise Shortt, Irene Devine
ITICSE
2000
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Has our curriculum become math-phobic? (an American perspective)
We are concerned about a view in undergraduate computer science education, especially in the early courses, that it’s okay to be math-phobic and still prepare oneself to become ...
Charles Kelemen, Allen B. Tucker, Peter Henderson,...
SIGCSE
2000
ACM
132views Education» more  SIGCSE 2000»
14 years 2 months ago
Empirical investigation throughout the CS curriculum
Empirical skills are playing an increasingly important role in the computing profession and our society. But while traditional computer science curricula are effective in teaching...
David W. Reed, Craig S. Miller, Grant Braught