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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The effects of empathetic virtual characters on presence in narrative-centered learning environments
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the role that narrative can play in learning. With the emergence of narrative-centered learning environments that engage students by d...
Scott W. McQuiggan, Jonathan P. Rowe, James C. Les...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
128views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Cybercivics: a novel approach to reaching k-12 students with the social relevance of computer science
This paper describes CyberCivics, a novel approach to computer science outreach that integrates hands-on computing experiences with the study of contemporary social and political ...
Jim Owens, Jeanna Matthews
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Computer-Assisted Ankle Joint Arthroplasty Using Bio-engineered Autografts
Bio-engineered cartilage has made substantial progress over the last years. Preciously few cases, however, are known where patients were actually able to benefit from these develop...
Rudolf Sidler, Wolfgang Köstler, Thibaut Bard...
KDD
1994
ACM
117views Data Mining» more  KDD 1994»
13 years 12 months ago
Application of the TETRAD II Program to the Study of Student Retention in U.S. Colleges
We applied TETRAD II, a causal discovery program developed in Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Philosophy, to a database containing information on 204 U.S. colleges...
Marek J. Druzdze, Clark Glymour
ICS
2009
Tsinghua U.
14 years 2 months ago
High-performance CUDA kernel execution on FPGAs
In this work, we propose a new FPGA design flow that combines the CUDA programming model from Nvidia with the state of the art high-level synthesis tool AutoPilot from AutoESL, to...
Alexandros Papakonstantinou, Karthik Gururaj, John...