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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: a tutoring study
In the quest to find instructional approaches that benefit student learning, engagement, and retention, evidence suggests providing students with hands-on practice is a worthwhile...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D...
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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16 years 6 days ago
Experiences teaching operating systems using virtual platforms and linux
Operating system courses teach students much more when they provide hands-on kernel-level project experience with a real operating system. However, enabling a large class of stude...
Jason Nieh, Chris Vaill
MICRO
2008
IEEE
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16 years 1 months ago
Toward a multicore architecture for real-time ray-tracing
Significant improvement to visual quality for real-time 3D graphics requires modeling of complex illumination effects like soft-shadows, reflections, and diffuse lighting intera...
Venkatraman Govindaraju, Peter Djeu, Karthikeyan S...
CLUSTER
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Balancing productivity and performance on the cell broadband engine
— The Cell Broadband Engine (BE) is a heterogeneous multicore processor, combining a general-purpose POWER architecture core with eight independent single-instructionmultiple-dat...
Sadaf R. Alam, Jeremy S. Meredith, Jeffrey S. Vett...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
An Infrastructure for Interactive and Playful Learning in Augmented Toy Environments
In this paper we describe our approach to realize a pervasive (computing) learning environment for children based on augmented toys: traditional toys that are equipped with pervas...
Steve Hinske, Marc Langheinrich