Today it is very common for software systems to be built by teams located in more than one country. For example, a project team may be located in the US while the team lead resides in Sweden. How then should students ...
Today it is very common for software systems to be built by teams located in more than one country. For example, a project team may be located in the US while the team lead resides in Sweden. How then should students be trained for this kind of work? Senior design or capstone projects offer students real-world hands-on experience but rarely while working internationally. One reason is that most instructors do not have international business contacts that allow them to find project sponsors in other countries. Another reason is the fear of having to invest a huge amount of time managing an international project. In this paper we present the general concepts related to "International Capstone Project Exchanges", the basic model behind the exchanges (student teams are led by an industry sponsor residing in a different country) and several alternate models that have been used in practice. We will give examples from projects in the US, Germany, Sweden, Australia, and Colombia. We have extended the model beyond software projects to include engineering projects as well as marketing, and journalism. We conclude with a description of an International Capstone Project Exchange website that we have developed to aid any university in establishing their own international project exchange.
We present a new locally differentially private algorithm for the heavy hitters problem which achieves optimal worst-case error as a function of all standardly considered parameters. Prior work obtained error rates wh...
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We consider the tensor product of the completely depolar- ising channel on d×d matrices with the map of Schur multiplication by a k ×k correlation matrix and characterise, via matrix theory methods, when suc...
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Bill Tomlinson, University of California, Irvine Donald J. Patterson, Westmont College, and Bonnie Nardi, University of California, Irvine, delivered a curse titled 'ICS 5: Global Disruption and Information Techno...
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Bill Tomlinson, University of California, Irvine Donald J. Patterson, Westmont College, and Bonnie Nardi, University of California, Irvine, delivered a curse titled 'ICS 5: Global Disruption and Information Technology' under Computing within LIMIT.. ICS 5 was one of the first online courses to be offered across the nine undergraduate campuses of the University of California system. The course has been offered three times to date: Winter 2015, Fall 2015, and Spring 2016. There were three primary curricular goals. The first was to educate students about the science of global change. The second was to educate students about the sociotechnical approach to technology design, which the three instructors have pursued throughout their careers. The third was to engage students in understanding and critiquing their own values and the processes by which such values may be brought to bear in the creation of sociotechnical solutions to global change. The authors structured the course as a descent into the problems in the early weeks, and then an ascent to solutions, ideas for solutions, and case studies of successes in the later weeks. A key premise of the course is that while technology may be able to address some aspects of sustainability, the core problem lies with the nature of current industrialized society. Despite their efforts, the authors found that many students struggled to grasp the core premise of LIMITS. Computing within LIMITS is critically important to the future of the computing discipline, and potentially a powerful transformative force in the world more broadly.
The classical convergence analysis of SGD is carried out under the assumption that the norm of the stochastic gradient is uniformly bounded. While this might hold for some loss functions, it is violated for cases wher...
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It is proved that if Apis a countable elementary abelian p-group, then: (i) The ring End (Ap) does not admit a nondiscrete locally compact ring topology. (ii) Under (CH) the simple ring End (Ap)/I, where I is the idea...
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The classic arcsine law for the number Nn>: = n-1Σk=1n1{Sk> 0} of positive terms, as n → ∞, in an ordinary random walk (Sn)n≥0is extended to the case when this random walk is governed by a positive recurrent...
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In this article we develop a functional model for a general maximal dissipative operator. We construct the selfadjoint dilation of such operators. Unlike previous functional models, our model is given explicitly in te...
Both the preparation of a reliable all-atom model of a polyamide (PA) membrane and the determination of its electrostatic parameters are considered significant challenges in a proposal to study forward-osmosis-dewater...
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Both the preparation of a reliable all-atom model of a polyamide (PA) membrane and the determination of its electrostatic parameters are considered significant challenges in a proposal to study forward-osmosis-dewatering of microalgae using molecular dynamics (MD). Density functional theory (DFT)-based calculations can effectively calculate for optimized structure and electrostatic properties, thus, employed to model and characterize the PA membrane starting from its molecular unit. The performed structural optimization resulted to the most stable configuration of the PA unit with bond length values that showed strong stability in the molecule such as the amide bond length of 1.413 A which was found to differ from that of a related study by ~3%. The calculated charge density distributions, electrostatic potential isosurface, and Mulliken charges on the PA unit provided potential binding sites and insights on the formation of amide bonds on the PA molecule. The non-amide-bonded nitrogen atom of m-phenylene diamine (MPD) was found to be the most active site in the molecule due to its highest magnitude of negative charge (positive Coulomb potential), suggesting that amide bond-formation with a carbon atom of a trimesoyl chloride (TMC) monomer is most likely to occur during polymerization. The calculated charges in the amide group and the zero-net sum of these charges also agreed reasonably well with another study. The results are of vital importance in parameterizing the interaction potentials of PA for use in the MD simulations.
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