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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: a tutoring study
In the quest to find instructional approaches that benefit student learning, engagement, and retention, evidence suggests providing students with hands-on practice is a worthwhile...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D...
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
156views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
16 years 22 days ago
Experiences teaching operating systems using virtual platforms and linux
Operating system courses teach students much more when they provide hands-on kernel-level project experience with a real operating system. However, enabling a large class of stude...
Jason Nieh, Chris Vaill
MICRO
2008
IEEE
114views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Toward a multicore architecture for real-time ray-tracing
Significant improvement to visual quality for real-time 3D graphics requires modeling of complex illumination effects like soft-shadows, reflections, and diffuse lighting intera...
Venkatraman Govindaraju, Peter Djeu, Karthikeyan S...
CLUSTER
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Balancing productivity and performance on the cell broadband engine
— The Cell Broadband Engine (BE) is a heterogeneous multicore processor, combining a general-purpose POWER architecture core with eight independent single-instructionmultiple-dat...
Sadaf R. Alam, Jeremy S. Meredith, Jeffrey S. Vett...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
An Infrastructure for Interactive and Playful Learning in Augmented Toy Environments
In this paper we describe our approach to realize a pervasive (computing) learning environment for children based on augmented toys: traditional toys that are equipped with pervas...
Steve Hinske, Marc Langheinrich