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POPL
2009
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Proving that non-blocking algorithms don't block
A concurrent data-structure implementation is considered nonblocking if it meets one of three following liveness criteria: waitfreedom, lock-freedom, or obstruction-freedom. Devel...
Alexey Gotsman, Byron Cook, Matthew J. Parkinson, ...
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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
119views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 4 months ago
The summer academy for advancing deaf and hard of hearing in computing
Deaf and hard of hearing students are an underrepresented group in computing and face extra challenges in university-level computing courses. This paper describes a 9-week Summer ...
Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Robert I. Roth
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KDD
2008
ACM
199views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
16 years 3 months ago
Building semantic kernels for text classification using wikipedia
Document classification presents difficult challenges due to the sparsity and the high dimensionality of text data, and to the complex semantics of the natural language. The tradi...
Pu Wang, Carlotta Domeniconi
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CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Towards developing assistive haptic feedback for visually impaired internet users
Haptic technologies are thought to have the potential to help blind individuals overcome the challenges experienced when accessing the Web. This paper proposes a structured partic...
Ravi Kuber, Wai Yu, Graham McAllister
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Jogging the distance
People enjoy jogging with others for social and motivational reasons. However, as reported by forum participants, finding a compatible, local jogging partner who shares the abilit...
Shannon O'Brien, Florian Mueller