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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Interacting with eHealth: towards grand challenges for HCI
While health records are increasingly stored electronically, we, as citizens, have little access to this data about ourselves. We are not used to thinking of these official record...
m. c. schraefel, Paul André, Ryen White, De...
ASSETS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
VoxBoox: : a system for automatic generation of interactive talking books
The VoxBoox system makes digital books accessible to visually impaired individuals via audio and voice. It automatically translates a book published in HTML to VoiceXML, and then ...
Aanchal Jain, Gopal Gupta
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
167views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Python CS1 as preparation for C++ CS2
How suitable is a Python-based CS1 course as preparation for a C++-based CS2 course? After fifteen years of using C++ for both CS1 and CS2, the Computer Science Department at Mich...
Richard J. Enbody, William F. Punch, Mark McCullen
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Fast distributed random walks
Performing random walks in networks is a fundamental primitive that has found applications in many areas of computer science, including distributed computing. In this paper, we fo...
Atish Das Sarma, Danupon Nanongkai, Gopal Panduran...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
250views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Query processing techniques for solid state drives
Solid state drives perform random reads more than 100x faster than traditional magnetic hard disks, while offering comparable sequential read and write bandwidth. Because of their...
Dimitris Tsirogiannis, Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul...