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HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
It's not all about "Green": energy use in low-income communities
Personal energy consumption, specifically home energy consumption such as heating, cooling, and electricity, has been an important environmental and economic topic for decades. De...
Tawanna Dillahunt, Jennifer Mankoff, Eric Paulos, ...
JMLR
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Posterior distributions are computable from predictive distributions
As we devise more complicated prior distributions, will inference algorithms keep up? We highlight a negative result in computable probability theory by Ackerman, Freer, and Roy (...
Cameron E. Freer, Daniel M. Roy
WMCSA
2002
IEEE
14 years 19 days ago
The Location Stack: A Layered Model for Location in Ubiquitous Computing
Based on five design principles extracted from a survey of location systems, we present the Location Stack, a layered software engineering model for location in ubiquitous comput...
Jeffrey Hightower, Barry Brumitt, Gaetano Borriell...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Computing and higher education in Peru
Abstract: In Peru, the computing discipline as an academic field has been neglected during decades deriving in a lowquality higher education system and consequently shaping an acad...
Marco A. Alvarez, José Baiocchi, José...
INTERACT
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech
: Originally founded in 1996, recently reorganized and refocused, the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech is an organization that is paving the way toward unders...
John M. Carroll, Doug A. Bowman, D. Scott McCricka...