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Royal Society Report Recommends CS in English Schools: Implications for USA?

 The Royal Society, the world's oldest scientic academy, released a report this month calling for a radical change to English schools: Real Computer Science for all.  What are the implications for the United States?

The Way Forward for Computer Science in the U.K.

The last week has seen some interesting developments in Computer Science Education in the U.K., with some sensible suggestions for improvements published in a report by the Royal Society.

We Needn't be Malevolent Grumps in 2012

I propose that 2012 is the year to solve the nastiness problem in Computer Science. Zero tolerance for rude reviewers starts from midnight tonight.

Online Stanford Classes Explore new Models for CS Learning

What's cool about the online Stanford CS classes is not the numbers, but the models.  They are explorations of new ways to teach computer science. 

Is the Computer Security Community Barking Up the Wrong Trees?

Planting Seeds in the Field of Knowledge

In these challenging economic times, universities are under great stress--economically, politically, and socially. It is tempting for those of us in computing to ignore these issues but, like agriculture and engineering before…

Hadoop AllReduce and Terascale Learning

In a breakthrough last summer, we came up with the first learning algorithm I've seen that is provably faster than any future single machine learning algorithm.

Enrollment and Quality: Does it Matter to Measure?

CS is declared to be the hottest major on campus based on enrollment at the top institutions.  But is it rising everywhere? We don't really know how to measure computing knowledge. Is that a problem? 

Celebrate Computing!

Computer Science Education Week 2011 is a call to action. It gives  the computing community an opportunity to raise awareness about the societal impact of computing, the richness of computing careers, and the critical need for…