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SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Small-college supercomputing: building a Beowulf cluster at a comprehensive college
A Beowulf cluster is a MIMD multiprocessor built from commodity off-the-shelf personal computers connected via a dedicated network, running free open-source software. Such a clust...
Joel C. Adams, David Vos
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
JERPA: a distance-learning environment for introductory Java programming courses
This paper describes a Java-based distance-education tool, called the Environment for Remote Programming Assignments in Java (JERPA), for use in computer science courses with Java...
David Emory, Roberto Tamassia
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Quantum money from knots
Quantum money is a cryptographic protocol in which a mint can produce a quantum state, no one else can copy the state, and anyone (with a quantum computer) can verify that the sta...
Edward Farhi, David Gosset, Avinatan Hassidim, And...
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Single-Call Mechanisms
Following Babaioff, Kleinberg, and Slivkins [4], we study single-call mechanisms — truthful mechanisms that evaluate an allocation function only once per instantiation. First, w...
Balasubramanian Sivan, Christopher A. Wilkens
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
A contribution to the conditioning of the total least squares problem
We derive closed formulas for the condition number of a linear function of the total least squares solution. Given an over determined linear systems Ax = b, we show that this condi...
Marc Baboulin, Serge Gratton