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CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Roomquake: embedding dynamic phenomena within the physical space of an elementary school classroom
Authentic practice in science requires access to phenomena. In this paper, we introduce RoomQuake, an application designed to foster the growth of a community of learning around s...
Tom Moher, Syeda Hussain, Tim Halter, Debi Kilb
PERCOM
2006
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks Using Directional Antennas
With the continued increase of speed and capacities of computing devices and the growing needs of people for mobile computing capabilities, Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have gai...
Imad Jawhar, Jie Wu
WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Matrix "Bit" loaded: a scalable lightweight join query processor for RDF data
The Semantic Web community, until now, has used traditional database systems for the storage and querying of RDF data. The SPARQL query language also closely follows SQL syntax. A...
Medha Atre, Vineet Chaoji, Mohammed J. Zaki, James...
WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Antourage: mining distance-constrained trips from flickr
We study how to automatically extract tourist trips from large volumes of geo-tagged photographs. Working with more than 8 million of these photographs that are publicly available...
Saral Jain, Stephan Seufert, Srikanta J. Bedathur
WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity
Geography and social relationships are inextricably intertwined; the people we interact with on a daily basis almost always live near us. As people spend more time online, data re...
Lars Backstrom, Eric Sun, Cameron Marlow