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History and travel are valuable components for building cultural awareness and preparing students to work in a global economy. In many STEM disciplines history is an intrinsic component of the pedagogy, serving to bind students to the professional community and culture. Computing, in contrast, has not systematically embedded historical awareness into the curriculum. As a step toward exposing students...
History can serve as a connecting thread bonding students to their professional community and intellectual heritage. Many STEM disciplines, such as physics and biology, consistently integrate historic figures into the curriculum. Computer Science, on the other hand, often omits history from the instructional landscape. As a step to mitigate the situation, this work explores some of the historic design...
Device interaction and file systems design is an important part of the computer science Operating Systems course. The system to be demonstrated in this work interfaces a commercial Geiger counter module with a cluster of Raspberry PI computers running Linux to provide timestamps between background radiation events. These time intervals are acquired and used by students to generate "true"...
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular disease was responsible for 17.5 million deaths in 2012, or 30% of all deaths. Recent research suggests that, in addition to pulse rate, the pulse waveform itself contains useful diagnostic information. To explore tactile representation of these waveforms, this demonstration deploys...
Designed to visually illustrate the impact of internode communication on high performance computing, this model supercomputer integrates the major architectural components of modern heterogeneous machines. Using inexpensive compute nodes the machine supports major supercomputing development tools including OpenMP, MPI, and Nvidia's CUDA. These capabilities make it an accessible tool for illustrating...
While simple pulse-rate is perhaps the most common cardiovascular assessment, recent research suggests that there is valuable information contained in the actual pulse waveform. As the first step toward developing a feature-based haptic suite, this work investigates the ability of a consumer-grade haptic device to represent arterial touch as a function of the physiological waveform gated to synthetic...
To visually illustrate the impact of architecture and communication on parallel computing we created a model supercomputer in the spirit of other engineering models. Combining Raspberry Pi computers with an Nvidia TK1 the resulting machine is distinguished by it's instructional utility, asymmetric CPU and communication channel speed, and for incorporating current trends in heterogeneous supercomputing...
Traditionally, topics such as parallel computing, computer graphics, and artificial intelligence have been taught as stand-alone courses in the computing curriculum. Often these are elective courses, limiting the material to the subset of students choosing to take the course. Recently there has been movement to distribute topics across the curriculum in order to ensure that all graduates have been...
Given that over 230,000 women in the United States alone will contract breast cancer, resulting in over 39,000 deaths and that there will be an estimated 458000 such deaths worldwide, the early detection and management of breast cancer is a significant problem. Currently, mammography provides the dominant front-line screening procedure. To assist in the interpretation of mammograms, a variety of computer...
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