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How to build serious games:
Communications of the ACM
Computer-aided education (CAE) has taken many forms at many different educational levels. This paper discusses the development of a video game created to teach immunology to high school and college...
Computer Uses In Education (K.3.1)
| Jul 1 08
A generalized approach to the design of variable fractional-delay FIR digital filters:
Signal Processing
Fractional-delay finite impulse response (FIR) filters have many uses, such as in communications for timing recovery, or in digital audio for arbitrary resampling.
In this...
Signal Processing Systems (C.3...)
| Jul 1 08
Towards cinematic Internet video-on-demand:
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Cheng et al. describe and discuss GridCast, a video-on-demand system, online since 2006. This system employs peer assistance to improve scalability and continuity. This approach allows GridCast...
Distributed Applications (C.2.4...)
| Jul 1 08
The crucial role of CS in systems and synthetic biology:
Communications of the ACM
Synthetic biology deals with artificial DNA that is designed to perform the tasks involved in reengineering cell behavior. In advocating this approach, Cohen has two objectives: to urge...
Life And Medical Sciences (J.3)
| Jul 1 08
A secure privacy-preserving roaming protocol based on hierarchical identity-based encryption for mobile networks:
The current challenge in wireless networking is providing users with flexibility and convenience, together with security and privacy, while they roam across several wireless networks. In this...
Network Protocols (C.2.2)
| Jul 2 08
Two-level clustering of Web sites using self-organizing maps:
Neural Processing Letters
Petrilis and Halatsis describe a process of mining Web server-log files, using existing tools such as WumPrep and SOM-PAK, to create two (SOMs). The first SOM is based on patterns of...
Data Mining (H.2.8...)
| Jul 2 08
Strategy-based instruction:
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
The strength of strategy-based instruction resides in its instructional practices and learning environments, especially when applied to teaching the use of computer applications. In addition, as practice...
Curriculum (K.3.2...)
| Jul 2 08
Variational capacitance modeling using orthogonal polynomial method:
Cui et al. propose a novel statistical capacitance-extraction method, StatCap, for three-dimensional (3D) interconnects considering process variations. The new method is based...
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) (J.6...)
| Jul 2 08
Secure multi-hop network programming with multiple one-way key chains:
The open Internet raises new challenges for trust and security, as vast sensor networks become pervasive. The authors showcase their approach for using multiple one-way...
Network Protocols (C.2.2)
| Jul 3 08
Distributed real time database systems:
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Distributed real-time database systems (DRTDBS) are used for applying database systems technology to real-time systems.
Shanker, Misra, and Sarje describe DRTDBS basic concepts and definitions...
Distributed Databases (H.2.4...)
| Jul 3 08
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Electromagnetic fields (IEEE press series on electromagnetic wave theory)
It is probably superfluous to describe in detail such a well-known text, one that is present in any decent engineering or physics library. This is the second edition of a classic reference work in electrical engineering. Its 1,000-plus pages extend the discussion in...
Physics (J.2...)
| Jul 1 08
Podcast solutions
Podcasting technology has well-publicized applications in broadcasting. It also has excellent potential for use in education, by providing, for example, a means to periodically deliver teaching materials to...
Sound And Music Computing (H.5.5)
| Jul 2 08
Practical reporting with Ruby and Rails (Expert’s Voice in Open Source)
Ruby is an open-source programming language that combines the features of both functional and imperative techniques. This book offers details on how to create reports with Ruby, including tools and techniques to manage data. While many tools...
Integrated Environments (D.2.6...)
| Jul 2 08
Practical Rails projects
In the introduction, Alameda states that prior Rails experience is required to make the best use of his book; I agree. On the other hand, if you are interested in learning whether the hype surrounding Rails is justified, then this book is also...
Web-Based Services (H.3.5...)
| Jul 2 08
Semantics with applications
Programming languages come and go. One possibility for teaching students the main concepts of programming languages is to present the formal semantics of simple programming languages. Formal semantics...
Semantics Of Programming Lang. (F.3.2)
| Jul 3 08
Test and analysis of Web services
The information technology (IT) industry has given the thumbs-up to service-oriented architecture (SOA). Big players, such as IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft, are investing heavily in SOA development tools. What is still missing is a thorough methodology for...
Testing And Debugging (D.2.5)
| Jul 3 08
Neural preprocessing and control of reactive walking machines
Reactive behaviors are commonly observed in animals: so-called negative tropism (obstacle avoidance) and positive tropism (prey capture). These are emulated in abstract form in the walking...
Robotics (I.2.9)
| Jul 3 08
New heritage
Cultural heritage (CH) and archaeological sites, monuments, and artifacts all over the world are facing rapid decline, and are now at high risk and under threat due to urbanization, conflicts, wars, and tourism. Cultural heritage management...
Architecture (J.5...)
| Jul 3 08
Fiber optic essentials (Wiley Survival Guides in Engineering and Science)
Fiber optics has come a long way over the past decades: from being purely an interesting field of science, to becoming an important multiapplications field, to settling down as an indispensable and promising technology with various uses. To be clear, fiber-optics...
Fiber Optics (B.4.3...)
| Jul 4 08
Computational methods for multiphase flows in porous media (Computational Science and Engineering 2)
Part of a series, published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), this book addresses the needs of computational scientists and engineers in their specific disciplines. The book concentrates on petroleum reservoir simulation...
Partial Differential Equations (G.1.8)
| Jul 4 08
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