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2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Why it works (when it works): success factors in online creative collaboration
Online creative collaboration (peer production) has enabled the creation of Wikipedia and open source software (OSS), and is rapidly expanding to encompass new domains, such as vi...
Kurt Luther, Kelly E. Caine, Kevin Ziegler, Amy Br...
ESA
2004
Springer
117views Algorithms» more  ESA 2004»
14 years 29 days ago
Classroom Examples of Robustness Problems in Geometric Computations
The algorithms of computational geometry are designed for a machine model with exact real arithmetic. Substituting floating-point arithmetic for the assumed real arithmetic may c...
Lutz Kettner, Kurt Mehlhorn, Sylvain Pion, Stefan ...
HINC
2003
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
The Birth of Simula
When designing Simula, Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard introduced the basic concepts of what later became known as object-orientation, which still, 35 years later, has a profoun...
Stein Krogdahl
SOFTWARE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
What Do We Know about Developer Motivation?
s of titles and abstracts) as irrelevant to our focus. We read the remaining 519 papers in full to establish our final list. The 92 papers we chose were originally published in the...
Tracy Hall, Helen Sharp, Sarah Beecham, Nathan Bad...
COMPUTER
2004
120views more  COMPUTER 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
Computer Security in the Real World
After thirty years of work on computer security, why are almost all the systems in service today extremely vulnerable to attack? The main reason is that security is expensive to s...
Butler W. Lampson