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ITICSE
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Teaching programming and language concepts using LEGOs
concepts more concrete. The method has two main learning outcomes: • Language Specification – The goal of the assignment is to be able to build LEGO® creations on a standard g...
Cynthia S. Hood, Dennis J. Hood
CHI
1998
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
The Progress Portfolio: Designing Reflective Tools for a Classroom Context
A great deal of effort has gone into developing open-ended inquiry activities for science education as well as complex computer tools for accessing scientific data to help student...
Ben Loh, Josh Radinsky, Eric Russell, Louis M. Gom...
ICALP
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Direct Sum Theorem in Communication Complexity via Message Compression
We prove lower bounds for the direct sum problem for two-party bounded error randomised multipleround communication protocols. Our proofs use the notion of information cost of a p...
Rahul Jain, Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Pranab Sen
HPDC
1999
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
The Cactus Computational Toolkit and using Distributed Computing to Collide Neutron Stars
We are developing a system for collaborative research and development for a distributed group of researchers at different institutions around the world. In a new paradigm for coll...
Gabrielle Allen, Tom Goodale, Joan Massó, E...
JISE
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
Determining the Idle Time of a Tiling: New Results
In the framework of perfect loop nests with uniform dependences, tiling has been extensively studied as a source-to-source program transformation. We build upon recent results by ...
Frederic Desprez, Jack Dongarra, Fabrice Rastello,...