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MM
2005
ACM
215views Multimedia» more  MM 2005»
16 years 7 days ago
OpenVIDIA: parallel GPU computer vision
Graphics and vision are approximate inverses of each other: ordinarily Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are used to convert “numbers into pictures” (i.e. computer graphics). I...
James Fung, Steve Mann
HUC
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
UBI challenge workshop 2010: real world urban computing
This workshop promotes ubiquitous computing research in authentic urban setting, with real users and with sufficient scale and time span. We first motivate why such research is im...
Timo Ojala, Jukka Riekki
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
193views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
Seattle: a platform for educational cloud computing
Cloud computing is rapidly increasing in popularity. Companies such as RedHat, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and IBM are increasingly funding cloud computing infrastructure and resea...
Justin Cappos, Ivan Beschastnikh, Arvind Krishnamu...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
143views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Thinking about computational thinking
Jeannette Wing’s call for teaching Computational Thinking (CT) as a formative skill on par with reading, writing, and arithmetic places computer science in the category of basic...
James J. Lu, George H. L. Fletcher
MOBIHOC
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Serendipity: enabling remote computing among intermittently connected mobile devices
Mobile devices are increasingly being relied on for services that go beyond simple connectivity and require more complex processing. Fortunately, a mobile device encounters, possi...
Cong Shi, Vasileios Lakafosis, Mostafa H. Ammar, E...