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SIGCSE
2006
ACM
135views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
16 years 16 days ago
Personality types, learning styles, and an agile approach to software engineering education
This paper describes an initiative at North Carolina State University in which the undergraduate software engineering class was restructured in layout and in presentation. The cha...
Lucas Layman, Travis Cornwell, Laurie A. Williams
HICSS
2006
IEEE
139views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
16 years 19 days ago
Projecting Computational Sense of Self: A Study of Transition in a Chronic Illness Online Community
We report on analysis of discussions in an online community of people with chronic illness using socio-cognitively motivated, automatically produced semantic spaces. The analysis ...
Robert McArthur, Peter Bruza, Jim Warren, Debbie K...
CSE
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Adaptation to Dynamic Resource Availability in Ad Hoc Grids through a Learning Mechanism
Ad-hoc Grids are highly heterogeneous and dynamic networks, one of the main challenges of resource allocation in such environments is to find mechanisms which do not rely on the ...
Behnaz Pourebrahimi, Koen Bertels
MICCAI
2006
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Shape-Driven 3D Segmentation Using Spherical Wavelets
Abstract. This paper presents a novel active surface segmentation algorithm using a multiscale shape representation and prior. We define a parametric model of a surface using spher...
Delphine Nain, Steven Haker, Aaron F. Bobick, Alle...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
88views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with scratch
This paper describes Scratch, a visual, block-based programming language designed to facilitate media manipulation for novice programmers. We report on the Scratch programming exp...
John H. Maloney, Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai...