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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Connecting with kids: so what's new?
From pre-schools to high schools, at home and in museums, the educational community has embraced the use of computers as a teaching tool. Yet many institutions will simply install...
Lori L. Scarlatos, Amy Bruckman, Allison Druin, Mi...
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Short and Simple Definition of What a Videogame Is
Videogames have been studied seriously only for a few years. So, we can wonder how we could use the recent academic works to approach new design methods. This article proposes a f...
Nicolas Esposito
OR
2002
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Copulae as a new tool in financial modelling
The paper presents an overview of financial applications of copulas. Copulas permit to represent joint distribution functions by splitting the marginal behavior, embedded in the ma...
Elisa Luciano, Marina Marena
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
144views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
Receiver-Based Optimization for Video Delivery Over Wireless Links
We consider transfer of video frames over a time-varying wireless channel. When the channel is good, the transmitter can send frames at a higher rate than the receiver can consume...
Carri W. Chan, John G. Apostolopoulos, Yan Li, Nic...
ESOP
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Exploring the Design Space of Higher-Order Casts
This paper explores the surprisingly rich design space for the simply typed lambda calculus with casts and a dynamic type. Such a calculus is the target intermediate language of th...
Jeremy G. Siek, Ronald Garcia, Walid Taha