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OOPSLA
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Scalable nonblocking concurrent objects for mission critical code
The high degree of complexity and autonomy of future robotic space missions, such as Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), poses serious challenges in assuring their reliability and ef...
Damian Dechev, Bjarne Stroustrup
SMA
2009
ACM
208views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Accelerating geometric queries using the GPU
We present practical algorithms for accelerating geometric queries on models made of NURBS surfaces using programmable Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). We provide a generalized f...
Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Sara McMains, Kirk Haller
SMA
2009
ACM
149views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A sketching interface for feature curve recovery of free-form surfaces
In this paper, we present a semi-automatic approach to efficiently and robustly recover the characteristic feature curves of a given free-form surface. The technique supports a s...
Ellen Dekkers, Leif Kobbelt, Richard R. Pawlicki, ...
W4A
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Accessibility perspectives on enabling South African sign language in the South African national accessibility portal
Persons with disabilities are often marginalised from economy and society due to the lack of access to disability related information and services. Through the use of assistive te...
Louis Coetzee, Guillaume J.-L. Olivrin, Ilse Vivie...
ICCCN
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Structured Hardware/Software Architecture for Embedded Sensor Nodes
—Owing to the limited requirement for sensor processing in early networked sensor nodes, embedded software was generally built around the communication stack. Modern sensor nodes...
Geoff V. Merrett, Alex S. Weddell, Nick R. Harris,...