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SIGCSE
2003
ACM
137views Education» more  SIGCSE 2003»
16 years 4 hour ago
Measuring the effectiveness of robots in teaching computer science
We report the results of a year-long experiment in the use of robots to teach computer science. Our data set compares results from over 800 students on identical tests from both r...
Barry S. Fagin, Laurence D. Merkle
SIGDOC
2003
ACM
16 years 4 hour ago
Hands-free documentation
In this paper, we introduce an analysis of the requirements and design choices for hands-free documentation. Hands-busy tasks such as cooking or car repair may require substantial...
Karen Ward, David G. Novick
SIGGRAPH
2003
ACM
16 years 3 hour ago
Learning controls for blend shape based realistic facial animation
Blend shape animation is the method of choice for keyframe facial animation: a set of blend shapes (key facial expressions) are used to define a linear space of facial expression...
Pushkar Joshi, Wen C. Tien, Mathieu Desbrun, Frede...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
16 years 3 hour ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
SIGMETRICS
2003
ACM
147views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2003»
16 years 3 hour ago
Effect of node size on the performance of cache-conscious B+-trees
In main-memory databases, the number of processor cache misses has a critical impact on the performance of the system. Cacheconscious indices are designed to improve performance b...
Richard A. Hankins, Jignesh M. Patel