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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Improving the persistence of first-year undergraduate women in computer science
This paper describes a study of undergraduate women's retention in the first-year of the computer science major at the University of Pennsylvania for the purpose of identifyi...
Rita Manco Powell
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Improving accessibility of the web with a computer game
Images on the Web present a major accessibility issue for the visually impaired, mainly because the majority of them do not have proper captions. This paper addresses the problem ...
Luis von Ahn, Shiry Ginosar, Mihir Kedia, Ruoran L...
ICC
2007
IEEE
127views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Inter-Domain Path Computation using Improved Crankback Signaling in Label Switched Networks
—For label switched networks, such as MPLS and GMPLS, most existing traffic engineering (TE) solutions work in a single routing domain. These solutions do not work when a route ...
Faisal Aslam, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Adrian Farrel, M...
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Improving and Stabilizing Parallel Computer Performance Using Adaptive Backfilling
The scheduler is a key component in determining the overall performance of a parallel computer, and as we show here, the schedulers in wide use today exhibit large unexplained gap...
David Talby, Dror G. Feitelson
IPPS
1996
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Memory Controller for Improved Performance of Streamed Computations on Symmetric Multiprocessors
The growing disparity between processor and memory speeds has caused memory bandwidth to become the performance bottleneck for many applications. In particular, this performance g...
Sally A. McKee, William A. Wulf