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FOCS
2006
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Heat Flow and a Faster Algorithm to Compute the Surface Area of a Convex Body
We draw on the observation that the amount of heat diffusing outside of a heated body in a short period of time is proportional to its surface area, to design a simple algorithm f...
Mikhail Belkin, Hariharan Narayanan, Partha Niyogi
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
125views Education» more  SIGCSE 2003»
16 years 6 days ago
Introducing middle school girls to fault tolerant computing
During summer 2002, we ran a workshop module for a group of 28 eighth-grade girls. Our aim was ambitious: to introduce these students, ages 12 and 13, to computer science by focus...
Paolo A. G. Sivilotti, Murat Demirbas
GI
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Features of a Toolkit for open Human-Computer Interaction with Ambient Services
: For the deployment of ambient services it is unrealistic to base user-computer interaction on traditional mouse or keyboard. Replacing them with other proprietary devices just mo...
Andreas Lorenz
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
143views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Thinking about computational thinking
Jeannette Wing’s call for teaching Computational Thinking (CT) as a formative skill on par with reading, writing, and arithmetic places computer science in the category of basic...
James J. Lu, George H. L. Fletcher