As a student of computer science, there's a significant chance you will end up working in software development after graduation. Despite whether your career path takes you into industry or academia, you're likely to have some kind of interaction with software development companies or organizations, if only in trying to get the most out of a project or collaboration.
By Michael DiBernardo, September 2009
While touchscreens allow extensive programmability and have become ubiquitous in today's gadgetry, such configurations lack the tactile sensations and feedback that physical buttons provide. As a result, these devices require more attention to use than their button-enabled counterparts. Still, the displays provide the ultimate interface flexibility and thus afford a much larger design space to application developers.
By Chris Harrison, Scott Hudson, September 2009
By Steve Clough, March 2009
This article describes a technique to visualize query results, representing purchase orders placed on Amazon.com, along a traditional 2-D scatter plot and a space-filling spiral. We integrate 3-D objects that vary their spatial placement, color, and texture properties into a visualization algorithm. This algorithm represents important aspects of a purchase order based on experimental results from human vision, computer graphics, and psychology. The resulting visual abstractions are used by viewers to rapidly and effectively explore and analyze the underlying purchase orders data.
By Amit Prakash Sawant, Christopher G. Healey, Dongfeng Chen, Rada Chirkova, March 2009
By Joonghoon Lee, December 2008
Computational semantics has become an interesting and important branch of computational linguistics. Born from the fusion of formal semantics and computer science, it is concerned with the automated processing of meaning associated with natural language expressions [2]. Systems of semantic representation, hereafter referred to as semantic formalisms, exist to describe meaning underlying natural language expressions. To date, several formalisms have been defined by researchers from a number of diverse disciplines including philosophy, logic, psychology and linguistics. These formalisms have a number of different applications in the realm of computer science. For example, in machine translation a sentence could be parsed and translated into a series of semantic expressions, which could then be used to generate an utterance with the same meaning in a different language [14]. This paper presents two existing formalisms and examines their user-friendliness. Additionally, a new form of semantic representation is proposed with wide coverage and user-friendliness suitable for a computational linguist.
By Craig Thomas, December 2008
By Kibum Kim, December 2005
By Hossein Mobahi, Karrie G. Karahalios, December 2005
By Kayre Hylton, Mary Beth Rosson, John Carroll, Craig Ganoe, December 2005
By Umer Farooq, December 2005
By William Stevenson, August 2004
By William Stallings, August 2004
By Sid Stamm, August 2004
By Kristina Winbladh, August 2004
By Mark A. Cohen, August 2004
By Tracey Lynn Weisheit, August 2004
By Diwaker Gupta, August 2004
By Jeremy T. Lanman, April 2004
By Ginger Myles, April 2004
By Joseph Nyiri, April 2004
By Stephany Filimon, April 2004
By Saveen Reddy, April 2004
By Richard Bergmair, April 2004
By Ronald Laurids Boring, December 2003
By Bryan Stroube, September 2003
By Yanru Zhang, Michael Weiss, September 2003
By Michael Hulme, Michael Locasto, September 2003
By Kostas Pentikousis, June 2003
By Aaron McCoy, Declan Delaney, Tomas Ward, June 2003
By David Stirling, Firas Al-Ali, June 2003
By Michael A. Grasso, March 2003
By Jennifer Lai, March 2003
By William Stevenson, December 2002
By Kostas Pentikousis, December 2002
By Donald Norman, September 2002
By Wendy A. Schafer, Doug A. Bowman, John M. Carroll, September 2002
By Robert Chin, September 2002
By Marc Perron, September 2002
By Richard Stallman, June 2002
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, June 2002
By Michael Brown, April 2002
By Bill Stevenson, December 2001
By Marie desJardins, December 2001
By Laura Majerus, September 2001
By John P. Kozma, Thomas Dion, September 2001
By Jessica Ledbetter, September 2001
By Christopher Andrews, September 2001
By Sandeep Jain, December 2000
By Jack Wilson, December 2000
By Hal Berghel, December 2000
By Jack Wilson, September 2000
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, September 2000
Electronic commerce faces the problem of signing electronic contracts. Three approaches for handling electronic contracts include 1) no trusted third party protocols, 2) strongly-trusted third party protocols and 3) weakly-trusted third party protocols. A secondary problem facing electronic commerce is self-enforcing contract design.
By David Molnar, September 2000
By Michael Nelte, Elton Saul, September 2000
By Norbert J. Kubilus, September 2000
By Theodore Chiasson, Carrie Gates, September 2000
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, July 2000
By Stephanie Ludi, July 2000
By Kevin Henry, July 2000
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, July 2000
By Fernando Berzal Galiano, June 2000
By Jack Wilson, June 2000
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, June 2000
By Kevin Fu, March 2000
By Jeremy Kindy, John Shuping, Patricia Yali Underhill, David John, March 2000
By Jack Wilson, March 2000
By Benjamin Fan, November 1999
By Jack Wilson, November 1999
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, November 1999
By Jack Wilson, September 1999
By Rachel Pottinger, September 1999
By Per Andersen, September 1999
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, Erika Orrick, June 1999
By Michael J. Grimley, Brian D. Monroe, June 1999
By Jack Wilson, March 1999
By Shane Hart, March 1999
By Jack Wilson, November 1998
Doctoral students often find it hard to understand at what level of productivity they should be. Through an analysis of resums of doctoral students in the Management Information Systems (MIS) field, a better understanding of what is expected of current students as compared to former students is achieved. Both conference presentations and publications in journals are examined. Finally, there is an examination of whether the quantity of publications can be related to the ranking of the school that a student attends.
By Kai Larsen, November 1998
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, September 1998
By Jack Wilson, September 1998
Advances in computing have awakened a century old teaching philosophy: learner-centered education. This philosophy is founded on the premise that people learn best when engrossed in the topic, participating in activities that motivate learning and help them to synthesize their own understanding. We consider how the object-oriented design (OOD) learning tools developed by Rosson and Carroll [5] facilitate active learning of this sort. We observed sixteen students as they worked through a set of user interaction scenarios about a blackjack game. We discuss how the features of these learning tools influenced the students' efforts to learn the basic constructs of OOD.
By Hope D. Harley, Cheryl D. Seals, Mary Beth Rosson, September 1998
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, September 1998
By Erika Dawn Gernand, May 1998
By Marianne G. Petersen, May 1998
By Jason Hong, May 1998
By Phil Agre, May 1998
By Jack Wilson, May 1998
By Hiroaki Kitano, Minoru Asada, Itsuki Noda, Hitoshi Matsubara, April 1998
Robotic soccer is a challenging research domain involving multiple agents that need to collaborate in an adversarial environment to achieve specific objectives. This article describes CMUnited, the team of small robotic agents that we developed to enter the RoboCup-97 competition. We designed and built the robotic agents, devised the appropriate vision algorithm, and developed and implemented algorithms for strategic collaboration between the robots in an uncertain and dynamic environment. The robots can organize themselves in formations, hold specific roles, and pursue their goals. In game situations, they have demonstrated their collaborative behaviors on multiple occasions. The robots can also switch roles to maximize the overall performance of the team. We present an overview of the vision processing algorithm which successfully tracks multiple moving objects and predicts trajectories. The paper then focuses on the agents' behaviors ranging from low-level individual behaviors to coordinated, strategic team behaviors. CMUnited won the RoboCup-97 small-robot competition at IJCAI-97 in Nagoya, Japan.
By Manuela Veloso, Peter Stone, Kwun Han, Sorin Achim, April 1998
By George Crawford, April 1998
By Jack Wilson, April 1998
By John Cavazos, April 1998
By George Crawford, November 1997
By John Cavazos, November 1997
By Vineet Kapur, Douglas Troy, James Oris, October 1997
By Wayne Smith, October 1997
By Neal G. Shaw, October 1997
By Susan E. Yager, October 1997
By Hal Berghel, October 1997
By Jack Wilson, October 1997
By Thomas C. Waszak, October 1997
By John Cavazos, October 1997
The increasing demands of 3D game realism - in terms of both scene complexity and speed of animation - are placing excessive strain on the current low-level, computationally expensive graphics drawing operations. Despite these routines being highly optimized, specialized, and often being implemented in assembly language or even in hardware, the ever-increasing number of drawing requests for a single frame of animation causes even these systems to become overloaded, degrading the overall performance. To offset these demands and dramatically reduce the load on the graphics subsystem, we present a system that quickly and efficiently finds a large portion of the game world that is not visible to the viewer for each frame of animation, and simply prevents it from being sent to the graphics system. We build this searching mechanism for unseen parts from common and easily implemented graphics algorithms.
By Kenneth E. Hoff, May 1997
By Phil Agre, May 1997
By Matt Cutts, May 1997
By Jack Wilson, May 1997
By John Cavazos, May 1997
By Sofia C. DeFernandez, April 1997
Contemporary computers predominantly employ graphical user interfaces (GUIS) and colour is a major componenet of the GUI. Every man-machine interface is composed of two major parts:the man and the machine [4]. Color interfaces are no different in that they are also based on two parts, the Human visual system (HVS) and a color display system. A theoretical examination of these two components establishes a foundation for developing practical guidelines for color interfaces. This paper will briefly examine theoretical aspects of both components and established techniques and tools for the effective use of color for software interface design.
By Peggy Wright, Diane Mosser-Wooley, Bruce Wooley, April 1997
By Ian MacColl, David Carrington, April 1997
By Christopher M. Smith, April 1997
By Michael A. Grasso, Tim Finin, April 1997
Virtual Reality hype is becoming a large part of everyday life. This paper explores the components of actual virtual reality systems, critiquing each in terms of human factors. The hardware and software of visual, aural, and haptic input and feedback are considered. Technical and human factor difficulties are discussed and some potential solutions are offered.
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, Christopher M. Smith, Steven Yang, April 1997
By Jack Wilson, April 1997
By John Cavazos, November 1996
By Bjorn Stabell, Ken Ronny Schouten, November 1996
By Sarah Elizabeth Burcham, November 1996
By Melissa Chaika, November 1996
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, November 1996
By Fabian Ernst, Jeroen Moelands, Seppo Pieterse, November 1996
By G. Bowden Wise, November 1996
By Jack Wilson, November 1996
By Sara Carlstead, November 1996
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, November 1996
By John Cavazos, November 1996
By Kentaro Toyama, Drew McDermott, September 1996
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, September 1996
By Joseph Beck, Mia Stern, Erik Haugsjaa, September 1996
By Jack Wilson, September 1996
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, September 1996
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, April 1996
The explosive growth of networked and internetworked computer systems during the past decade has brought about a need for increased protection mechanisms. This paper discusses three authentication protocols that incorporate the use of methods that present effective user authentication. The first two protocols have been previously discussed in the literature; the third protocol draws from the first two and others to produce an authentication scheme that provides both mutual authentication and secure key distribution which is easy to use, is compatible with present operating systems, is transparent across systems, and provides password file protection.
By Charles Cavaiani, Jim Alves-Foss, April 1996
By George E. Hatoun, Brad Templeton, February 1996
By Jack Wilson, February 1996
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, November 1995
By Jeff Robbins, November 1995
By Matt Rosenberg, November 1995
By Melissa Chaika, November 1995
By Sara M. Carlstead, November 1995
By Rob Jackson, November 1995
By Scott Ramsey MacDonald, November 1995
By G. Bowden Wise, November 1995
By Jack Wilson, November 1995
By Sara M. Carlstead, November 1995
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, November 1995
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, November 1995
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, Adam Lake, September 1995
By Sara M. Carlstead, September 1995
By Saul Jimenez, May 1995
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, May 1995
By Adam Lake, May 1995
By Sara M. Carlstead, May 1995
By Marie desJardins, February 1995
By Bradley M. Kuhn, February 1995
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, February 1995
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, February 1995
This paper attempts to raise some issues that are important for graduate students to be successful and to get as much out of the process as possible, and for advisors who wish to help their students be successful. The intent is not to provide prescriptive advice -- no formulas for finishing a thesis or twelve-step programs for becoming a better advisor are given -- but to raise awareness on both sides of the advisor-student relationship as to what the expectations are and should be for this relationship, what a graduate student should expect to accomplish, common problems, and where to go if the advisor is not forthcoming.
By Marie desJardins, December 1994
By Saveen Reddy, Stephen R. Schach, December 1994
By Terry White, December 1994
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, December 1994
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, September 1994
By Craig Pfeifer, September 1994
By Mark R. Nelson, September 1994
By Sara M. Carlstead, September 1994
By Terry White, September 1994
By Saveen Reddy, September 1994
