Insatiable demands for performance and the availability of inexpensive microprocessors have led to the development of multiprocessor-based systems. Passionate debates amongst architects, designers, and vendors continue to rage regarding cost effective multiprocessor design alternatives. Hypes and claims of performance and scalability are confusing and often misleading. Increasing performance an...

In this paper we reflect on our experiences in a project where academic researchers and social change organizations are working together to explore how participatory and co-design practices can be disseminated and spread within the ‘third sector’. The research project is itself co-designed and co-produced, but within various constraints arising from research funding models. We explore both our ...

This paper discusses the key role that impact evaluations should play in scaling up. Credible impact evaluations are needed to ensure that the most effective programs are scaled up at the national or international levels. Scaling up is possible only if a case can be made that programs that have been successful on small scale would work in other contexts. Therefore, the very objective of scaling...

The promise of learning analytics is that they will enable us to understand and optimize learning and the environments in which it takes place. The intention is to develop models, algorithms, and processes that can be widely used. In order to do this, we need to move from smallscale research within our disciplines towards large-scale implementation across our institutions. This is a tough chall...

Plan recognition is the task of determining what a person is doing based on a partial view of their behavior. For example, a plan recognizer might observe a computer user executing a sequence of ls, cd, and compress commands in a Unix shell and infer that the computer user is compressing all large les that she owns. Plan recognition is often studied in domains in which people's behavior is char...