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SIGCSE
2000
ACM
121views Education» more  SIGCSE 2000»
13 years 12 months ago
Powers of 10: the case for changing the first course in computer graphics
The growing maturity of computer graphics technology now makes it possible to view the introductory graphics course in a general computer science curriculum in a new light. Instea...
Steve Cunningham
AISM
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Computer Security Research: Approaches and Assumptions
Researchers, no matter their field, are faced with the problem of selecting an appropriate approach before conducting a study. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview ...
Christopher Bolan, Daniel Mende
STOC
2005
ACM
115views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
Computing the first Betti number and the connected components of semi-algebraic sets
In this paper we describe the first singly exponential algorithm for computing the first Betti number of a given semi-algebraic set. We also describe algorithms for obtaining semi...
Saugata Basu, Richard Pollack, Marie-Franço...
ARITH
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Fast-Start Method for Computing the Inverse Tangent
In a search for an algorithm to compute atan(x) which has both low latency and few floating point instructions, an interesting variant of familiar trigonometry formulas was disco...
Peter W. Markstein