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Eric Roberts
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 56
Citations - 1246
Eric Roberts is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Java & Curriculum. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 55 publications receiving 1204 citations. Previous affiliations of Eric Roberts include BBN Technologies.
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Workcrews: an abstraction for controlling parallelism
Mark T. Vandevoorde,Eric Roberts +1 more
TL;DR: This paper introduces a dynamic strategy called WorkCrews for controlling the use of parallelism on small-scale, tightly-coupled multiprocessors and favors coarse-grained subtasks, which reduces further the overhead of task decomposition.
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Encouraging women in computer science
TL;DR: This paper describes several strategies the authors have adopted at Stanford to increase recruitment and retention of women students over the past decade.
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Pluribus—An operational fault-tolerant multiprocessor
TL;DR: The authors describe the Pluribus multiprocessor system, outline several techniques used to achieve fault-tolerance, describe their field experience to date, and mention some potential applications that might benefit from this approach.
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Using undergraduates as teaching assistants in introductory programming courses: an update on the Stanford experience
TL;DR: In this paper, the approach that has evolved at Stanford for the introductory computer science courses is described, which is based on the extensive use of advanced undergraduates to teach sections of the introductory course.
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An overview of MiniJava
TL;DR: The paper outlines the particular restrictions and extensions that define MiniJava, a teaching-oriented programming language closely based on the Java language developed by Sun Microsystems, along with pedagogical justifications for each.