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FIRSTMONDAY
2010
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15 years 29 days ago
Bubbles, gullibility, and other challenges for economics, psychology, sociology, and information sciences
Abstract. Gullibility is the principal cause of bubbles. Investors and the general public get snared by a "beautiful illusion" and throw caution to the wind. Attempts to ...
Andrew M. Odlyzko
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CSCW
2012
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Socializing volunteers in an online community: a field experiment
Although many off-line organizations give their employees training, mentorship, a cohort and other socialization experiences that improve their retention and productivity, online ...
Rosta Farzan, Robert Kraut, Aditya Pal, Joseph A. ...
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WWW
2003
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Design, implementation, and evaluation of a client characterization driven web server
In earlier work we proposed a way for a Web server to detect connectivity information about clients accessing it in order to take tailored actions for a client request. This paper...
Balachander Krishnamurthy, Yin Zhang, Craig E. Wil...
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ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Deciding what to design: closing a gap in software engineering education
Software has jumped "out of the box" ? it controls critical systems, pervades business and commerce, and infuses entertainment, communication, and other everyday activiti...
Mary Shaw, James D. Herbsleb, Ipek Ozkaya
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POPL
2010
ACM
16 years 29 days ago
Automatically Generating Instruction Selectors Using Declarative Machine Descriptions
Despite years of work on retargetable compilers, creating a good, reliable back end for an optimizing compiler still entails a lot of hard work. Moreover, a critical component of ...
João Dias, Norman Ramsey