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SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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16 years 1 months ago
Women in CS: an evaluation of three promising practices
Historically, Harvey Mudd College (HMC) has had very little success attracting women to the study of computer science: women have chosen CS less than any other field of study. In...
Christine Alvarado, Zachary Dodds
ACMSE
2008
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Biometrics education with hands-on labs
Biometrics is an emerging field via the automated use of unique and measurable physiological or behavioral characteristics to determine or verify identity. Biometrics has a variet...
Li Yang, Kathy Winters, Joseph M. Kizza
ITICSE
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
PhidgetLab: crossing the border from virtual to real-world objects
Teaching pupils the ideas behind objects in programming languages can be difficult since these concepts are mostly and not comprehensible at first sight. Etoys as a visual progra...
Michael Haupt, Michael Perscheid, Robert Hirschfel...
PARCO
1997
15 years 7 months ago
Scheduling Block-Cyclic Array Redistribution
This article is devoted to the run-time redistribution of arrays that are distributed in a blockcyclic fashion over a multidimensional processor grid. While previous studies have ...
Frederic Desprez, Jack Dongarra, Antoine Petitet, ...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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16 years 13 days ago
Visual programming and the blind: the challenge and the opportunity
The proliferation of graphical user interfaces has had a dramatic impact on the ability to work as a programmer. It is particularly difficult for the blind to create forms for vis...
Robert M. Siegfried