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The "NoSQL" Discussion has Nothing to Do With SQL
Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about "No SQL" databases. This blog post considers the performance argument about No SQL databases; a subsequent posting will address the flexibility argument.
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Collaborating Across Boundaries
In a global world, collaboration and communicating with colleagues in different geographical locations is becoming critically important. What kinds of tools can we build to address some of these challenges?
Introductory Computer Science Lessons--Take Heart!
A discussion of Mark Guzdial's post about why our approach to teaching novice CS students is wrong.
How we Teach Introductory Computer Science is Wrong
Research in educational psychology in the last 20 years calls into question our most common teaching methods in introductory courses: Teaching programming by having students program
Collective Intelligence: a Fad or Real Research?
A recent trend in HCI research is the extension of the long time goal of augmenting human intelligence to "augmenting social intelligence." That is, enabling not just a single person to find and make sense of information, but…
Grace Hopper Highlights
Tessa reports on highlights from the recent Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Final thoughts About Grace Hopper Conference
Just a few final thoughts and pointers to projects and resources.
Student Research Competition at Grace Hopper
Highlights of the top six posters/presentations at the Student Research Competition
Smartphones and Health Systems Research at Intel Seattle
The ubiquity of smartphones and their increasing ability to collect and transmit information will lead the way for the next advances in health monitoring and improvement.
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