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2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Two peers are better than one: aggregating peer reviews for computing assignments is surprisingly accurate
Scientiï¬c peer review, open source software development, wikis, and other domains use distributed review to improve quality of created content by providing feedback to the workâ...
Ken Reily, Pam Ludford Finnerty, Loren G. Terveen
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
MonoTrans2: a new human computation system to support monolingual translation
In this paper, we present MonoTrans2, a new user interface to support monolingual translation; that is, translation by people who speak only the source or target language, but not...
Chang Hu, Benjamin B. Bederson, Philip Resnik, Yak...
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
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14 years 28 days ago
Measuring the effectiveness of robots in teaching computer science
We report the results of a year-long experiment in the use of robots to teach computer science. Our data set compares results from over 800 students on identical tests from both r...
Barry S. Fagin, Laurence D. Merkle
ICCS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
On the Virtues of Generic Programming for Symbolic Computation
The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of C level code polynomial arithmetic on the performances of AXIOM highlevel algorithms, such as polynomial factorization. More p...
Xin Li, Marc Moreno Maza, Éric Schost
NIPS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Reducing Spike Train Variability: A Computational Theory Of Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity
Experimental studies have observed synaptic potentiation when a presynaptic neuron fires shortly before a postsynaptic neuron, and synaptic depression when the presynaptic neuron ...
Sander M. Bohte, Michael C. Mozer