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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Socially relevant computing
In this paper, we introduce socially relevant computing as a new way to reinvigorate interest in computer science. Socially relevant computing centers on the use of computation to...
Michael Buckley, John Nordlinger, Devika Subramani...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
The summer academy for advancing deaf and hard of hearing in computing
Deaf and hard of hearing students are an underrepresented group in computing and face extra challenges in university-level computing courses. This paper describes a 9-week Summer ...
Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Robert I. Roth
COMPSAC
2006
IEEE
16 years 15 days ago
Highly Reliable Mobile Desktop Computing in Your Pocket
We present DeskPod, a portable system that provides a highly reliable desktop computing environment for mobile users by leveraging rapid improvements in capacity, cost, and size o...
Shaya Potter, Jason Nieh
ICDCS
2005
IEEE
16 years 1 days ago
Using a Layered Markov Model for Distributed Web Ranking Computation
The link structure of the Web graph is used in algorithms such as Kleinberg’s HITS and Google’s PageRank to assign authoritative weights to Web pages and thus rank them. Both ...
Jie Wu, Karl Aberer
FC
2005
Springer
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15 years 12 months ago
Secure Biometric Authentication for Weak Computational Devices
This paper presents computationally “lightweight” schemes for performing biometric authentication that carry out the comparison stage without revealing any information that can...
Mikhail J. Atallah, Keith B. Frikken, Michael T. G...