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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
After access: challenges facing mobile-only internet users in the developing world
This study reports results of an ethnographic action research study, exploring mobile-centric internet use. Over the course of 13 weeks, eight women, each a member of a livelihood...
Shikoh Gitau, Gary Marsden, Jonathan Donner
DEXA
2007
Springer
150views Database» more  DEXA 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Sequence Alignment as a Database Technology Challenge
Abstract. Sequence alignment is an important task for molecular biologists. Because alignment basically deals with approximate string matching on large biological sequence collecti...
Hans Philippi
ISCC
2006
IEEE
166views Communications» more  ISCC 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Integration of Embedded Devices Through Web Services: Requirements, Challenges and Early Results
Integration of the currently available computing systems and platforms is one of the most envisaged goals achieved by computer scientists, which starts to become a reality nowaday...
Guilherme Bertoni Machado, Frank Siqueira, Robinso...
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
14 years 2 months ago
Multigrain parallel Delaunay Mesh generation: challenges and opportunities for multithreaded architectures
Given the importance of parallel mesh generation in large-scale scientific applications and the proliferation of multilevel SMTbased architectures, it is imperative to obtain ins...
Christos D. Antonopoulos, Xiaoning Ding, Andrey N....
ISLPED
1999
ACM
131views Hardware» more  ISLPED 1999»
14 years 25 days ago
Challenges in clockgating for a low power ASIC methodology
Gating the clock is an important technique used in low power design to disable unused modules of a circuit. Gating can save power by both preventing unnecessary activiiy in the lo...
David Garrett, Mircea R. Stan, Alvar Dean