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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Publics in practice: ubiquitous computing at a shelter for homeless mothers
Today, commodity technologies like mobile phones—once symbols of status and wealth—have become deeply woven into social and economic participation in Western society. Despite ...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, Robert G. Farrell, Jim C...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development
As our technologies travel to new cultural contexts and our designs and methods engage new constituencies, both our design and analytical practices face significant challenges. We...
Lilly Irani, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, Kavita P...
GECON
2009
Springer
125views Business» more  GECON 2009»
14 years 10 days ago
Message Protocols for Provisioning and Usage of Computing Services
Abstract. The commercial availability of computational resources enable consumers to scale their applications on-demand. However, it is necessary for both consumers and providers o...
Nikolay Borissov, Simon Caton, Omer F. Rana, Aharo...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
184views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 16 days ago
Computing pure strategy nash equilibria in compact symmetric games
We analyze the complexity of computing pure strategy Nash equilibria (PSNE) in symmetric games with a fixed number of actions. We restrict ourselves to “compact” representati...
Christopher Thomas Ryan, Albert Xin Jiang, Kevin L...
CRITICAL
2005
13 years 9 months ago
From useful idiocy to activism: a Marxist interpretation of computer development
Baran and Sweezy’s 1966 study of U.S. capitalism [2] argued that its fundamental problem is not “diminishing returns” but “the tendency of surplus to rise” – from whic...
Bob Hughes