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W4A
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Mobile phones may be the right devices for supporting developing world accessibility, but is the WWW the right service delivery
In this paper we detail the synergies we have observed between the features and limitations of mobile phones, and the usability and accessibility requirements of rural developing ...
Tapan S. Parikh
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
321views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
HadoopDB in action: building real world applications
HadoopDB is a hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS technologies, designed to meet the growing demand of analyzing massive datasets on very large clusters of machines. Our previous work ha...
Azza Abouzied, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Jiewen Hua...
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Local closed world reasoning with description logics under the well-founded semantics
An important question for the upcoming Semantic Web is how to best combine open world ontology languages, such as the OWL-based ones, with closed world rule-based languages. One o...
Matthias Knorr, José Júlio Alferes, ...
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
From small scale to large scale user participation: a case study of participatory design in e-government systems
Most experiments with participative design are with small scale, stand alone and not very strategic applications of ICT in organizations. However, modern ICT applications are incr...
Anne-Marie Oostveen, Peter Van den Besselaar
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
135views Education» more  SIGCSE 2002»
13 years 8 months ago
Introducing computer science through animation and virtual worlds
We describe a course for non-majors that teaches computer science concepts and programming by creating simple animations and building 2D and 3D virtual worlds. Students work with ...
Susan H. Rodger