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ISPD
2006
ACM
71views Hardware» more  ISPD 2006»
16 years 15 days ago
Satisfying whitespace requirements in top-down placement
In this invited note we outline several algorithms and features appearing in Capo 10, free open-source software for congestion-driven standard cell placement, mixed-size placement...
Jarrod A. Roy, David A. Papa, Aaron N. Ng, Igor L....
MM
2006
ACM
93views Multimedia» more  MM 2006»
16 years 14 days ago
A scalable service for photo annotation, sharing, and search
In this work we present the details of the implementation of Fotofiti(FF), a website that provides automatic semantic annotation of digital photographs, event management and soci...
Benjamin N. Lee, WenYen Chen, Edward Y. Chang
MOBICOM
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Low-power acoustic modem for dense underwater sensor networks
Significant progress has been made in terrestrial sensor networks to revolutionize sensing and data collection. To bring the concept of long-lived, dense sensor networks to the u...
Jack Wills, Wei Ye, John S. Heidemann
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
119views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
16 years 14 days ago
Practice what you preach: full separation of concerns in CS1/CS2
We argue that the failure to separate the concerns in CS1 is the leading cause of difficulty in teaching OOP in the first year. We show how the concerns can be detangled and prese...
Hamzeh Roumani
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
117views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
16 years 14 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