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SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
User guidance for creating precise and accessible property specifications
Property specifications concisely describe aspects of what a system is supposed to do. No matter what notation is used to describe them, however, it is difficult to represent thes...
Rachel L. Cobleigh, George S. Avrunin, Lori A. Cla...
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STOC
2009
ACM
145views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
Non-malleable extractors and symmetric key cryptography from weak secrets
We study the question of basing symmetric key cryptography on weak secrets. In this setting, Alice and Bob share an n-bit secret W, which might not be uniformly random, but the ad...
Yevgeniy Dodis, Daniel Wichs
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
194views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
Integrating pedagogical code reviews into a CS 1 course: an empirical study
Formal code inspections are employed by teams of professional software engineers to identify software defects and improve the quality of software. After reviewing a piece of code ...
Christopher D. Hundhausen, Anukrati Agrawal, Dana ...
KDD
2006
ACM
179views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Group formation in large social networks: membership, growth, and evolution
The processes by which communities come together, attract new members, and develop over time is a central research issue in the social sciences -- political movements, professiona...
Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kle...
ICFP
2003
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Software is discrete mathematics
A three-year study collected information bearing on the question of whether studying mathematics improves programming skills. An analysis of the data revealed significant differen...
Rex L. Page