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CCGRID
2007
IEEE
16 years 29 days ago
CyberBridges A Model Collaboration Infrastructure for e-Science
The “CyberBridges” pilot project is an innovative model for creating a new generation of scientists and engineers who are capable of fully integrating cyberinfrastructure into...
Heidi L. Alvarez, David C. Chatfield, Donald A. Co...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
16 years 18 days ago
How real should virtual characters be?
In recent years 3D virtual characters have become more common in desktop interfaces, particularly in gaming and entertainment applications. In this paper we describe how augmented...
Daniel Wagner, Mark Billinghurst, Dieter Schmalsti...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
127views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
16 years 17 days ago
SNITCH: a software tool for detecting cut and paste plagiarism
Plagiarism of material from the Internet is a widespread and growing problem. Computer science students, and those in other science and engineering courses, can sometimes get away...
Sebastian Niezgoda, Thomas P. Way
ITICSE
2005
ACM
16 years 5 days ago
Iconic programming for flowcharts, java, turing, etc
One of the largest barriers to learning programming is the precise and complex syntax required to write programs. This barrier is a key impediment to the integration of programmin...
Stephen Chen, Stephen Morris
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
111views Education» more  SIGCSE 2004»
16 years 1 days ago
Events not equal to GUIs
The event driven paradigm is ubiquitous in modern software. Many texts introduce events when discussing graphical user interfaces, but the event paradigm extends well beyond that ...
Stuart A. Hansen, Timothy V. Fossum