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CRIWG
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Using Second Life in Programming's Communities of Practice
Abstract. This paper presents a novel approach to teaching and learning computer programming, using the three-dimensional virtual world Second Life
Micaela Esteves, Ricardo Antunes, Benjamim Fonseca...

Presentation
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15 years 4 months ago
Exponential families and simplification of mixture models
Presentation of the exponential families, of the mixtures of such distributions and how to learn it. We then present algorithms to simplify mixture model, using Kullback-Leibler di...
IIE
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Towards the Information Society - the Case of Finnnish Teacher Education
Abstract. The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education is one important competence that student teacher should develop in their academic studies. To be ca...
Johani Rautopuro, Susanna Pöntinen, Jari Kukk...
ICML
2005
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Compact approximations to Bayesian predictive distributions
We provide a general framework for learning precise, compact, and fast representations of the Bayesian predictive distribution for a model. This framework is based on minimizing t...
Edward Snelson, Zoubin Ghahramani
ICML
2004
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Kernel conditional random fields: representation and clique selection
Kernel conditional random fields (KCRFs) are introduced as a framework for discriminative modeling of graph-structured data. A representer theorem for conditional graphical models...
John D. Lafferty, Xiaojin Zhu, Yan Liu