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2010
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Enhanced exploration of oral history archives through processed video and synchronized text transcripts
A digital video library of over 900 hours of video and 18000 stories from The HistoryMakers was used by 266 students, faculty, librarians, and life-long learners interacting with ...
Michael G. Christel, Scott M. Stevens, Bryan Maher...
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Wake-on-WLAN
In bridging the digital divide, two important criteria are cost-effectiveness, and power optimization. While 802.11 is cost-effective and is being used in several installations in...
Nilesh Mishra, Kameswari Chebrolu, Bhaskaran Raman...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Early olpc experiences in a rural uruguayan school
In this paper, we discuss children's and teachers' experiences in a small rural town in Uruguay where every child in elementary school has received a laptop from the OLP...
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Daiana Beitler, Fernando Corm...
ICALT
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
LEMAT: A Project for Innovation in Teaching Mathematics
“Lemat” is an acronym for Libro Electrónico de Matemáticas, which means Electronic Book of Mathematics. It is a project developed by a group of teachers at secondary school ...
Beatriz Porras, Jose A. Cordon, Juan Manuel Olazab...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Modified polyphone decision tree specialization for porting multilingual Grapheme based ASR systems to new languages
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been developed only for a very limited number of the estimated 7,000 languages in the world. In order to avoid the evolvement of a ...
Sebastian Stüker