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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
The polymath project: lessons from a successful online collaboration in mathematics
Although science is becoming increasingly collaborative, there are remarkably few success stories of online collaborations between professional scientists that actually result in ...
Justin Cranshaw, Aniket Kittur
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
94views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
CS1 students speak: advice for students by students
We collected advice on how to succeed at learning to program from 164 CS1 students at 3 institutions during a "saying is believing"intervention designed to encourage a g...
Beth Simon, Brian Hanks, Carol Zander, Laurie Murp...
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STOC
2006
ACM
134views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Byzantine agreement in the full-information model in O(log n) rounds
We present a randomized Byzantine Agreement (BA) protocol with an expected running time of O(log n) rounds, in a synchronous full-information network of n players. For any constan...
Michael Ben-Or, Elan Pavlov, Vinod Vaikuntanathan
SOFSEM
2010
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Flavors of KWQL, a Keyword Query Language for a Semantic Wiki
Abstract. This article introduces KWQL, spoken “quickel”, a rulebased query language for a semantic wiki based on the label-keyword query paradigm. KWQL allows for rich combine...
François Bry, Klara A. Weiand
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Eliciting and focusing geographic volunteer work
Open content communities such as wikis derive their value from the work done by users. However, a key challenge is to elicit work that is sufficient and focused where needed. We ...
Reid Priedhorsky, Mikhil Masli, Loren G. Terveen