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An Undervalued Math Problem
As most of you know there are 7 problems worth $1,000,000 (see here). It may be just 6 since Poincare's conjecture has probably been solved. Why are these problems worth that much money? There are other open problems that are…
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CYC is Posting Snippets of Knowledge
I see that the CYC company is now twittering. CYC was started in 1984 by Douglas Lenat. Their site has some demos. Have followed its progress since then and even visited them in Austin several times to see what value theyin…
R Computing for Data Mining
The NYTimes has an overview article on the open source R Computing Language. Emphasizing its use for data mining applications. Not a bad article, but they start out implying that it is meant to be a general purpose language,…
Marcel Just and Tom Mitchell Appear on CBS 60 Minutes
Last Sunday I wrote about the computational neuroscience work by Marcel Just and Tom Mitchell. Well, the CBS 60 Minutes feature was really quite interesting. In the segment, one of the staff members for the 60 Minutes crew was…
Gigapan Story is #1 on Times of London in 2008
This news has been on the SCS web page for about a week already, but still worth a mention here: Last year the online edition of the Times of London did a story on the Gigapan camera system, developed by Illah Nourbakhsh and…
Leadership Cohort Activities in Ohio
I am very excited to be a part of the CSTA Leadership Cohort. I was impressed at the workshop this summer with all of the insights into CS education, where we have been and where we hope to be. We are doing our best in Ohio…
Leadership Cohort Activities in Gwinnett County, Georgia
I began this school year with a renewed spirit, after having attending the Leadership Cohort in Chicago, IL this summer! It was so empowering to be amongst folks with like minds and a passion to grow our computer science programs…
CSTA Now HAS RSS
CSTA has just added an RSS feed for its news updates on the homepage. If you already have an RSS reader either installed in your browser or through a service like Google reader, just use the orange icon to have your reader
…Why Students Do Not Take APCS
I recently heard a statistic that 30% of the students who take AP Computer Science go on to major in computer science in college. While this may sound like an impressive statistic, it only serves to highlight one of the systemic…
Real World Learning in a Web Design Class
I started teaching web design to students when the World Wide Web started to explode in 1994. Back then my students used HTML and notepad to create the school's website. Web design tools have come a long way since then. So I
…Addressing the Crisis in Computer Science Certification
We can all agree that it is essential that computer science teachers have adequate preparation and professional development to teach computer science successfully. We can probably also agree that there is currently a crisis in…
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Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice
This paper, by Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research, sounds like me: Abstract: It is often suggested that users are hopelessly lazy and unmotivated on…4-year Masters
Harvard, like many other places, has an option by which students (with "Advanced Standing" from AP classes) can obtain a Master's (in some programs) as…Run-length encoding (part I)
Run-length encoding (RLE) is probably the most important and fundamental string compression technique. Countless multimedia formats and protocols use…
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