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GIR
2006
ACM
16 years 11 days ago
Handling Locations in Search Engine Queries
This paper proposes simple techniques for handling place references in search engine queries, an important aspect of geographical information retrieval. We address not only the de...
Bruno Martins, Mário J. Silva, Sérgi...
ITICSE
2006
ACM
16 years 11 days ago
High school computing clubs: a pilot study
While classes in IT skills are endemic, high school students in the UK rarely experience computer science. We present a pilot of a scheme that aims to go some way towards addressi...
Andrew Bennett, Joanna Briggs, Martyn Clark
MOBICOM
2006
ACM
16 years 11 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
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'Programming language paradigms' instruction through designing a new paradigm
Undergraduate and master’s students enrolled in a programming language paradigms class are given the assignment to design a new programming language paradigm. The students are a...
Hilda M. Standley
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
134views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
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jFAST: a java finite automata simulator
Visualization and interactivity are valuable active learning techniques that can improve mastery of difficult concepts. In this paper we describe jFAST, an easy-to-use graphical s...
Timothy M. White, Thomas P. Way