Elliot Soloway
How the Nintendo generation learns
Recently, I was chatting with my son, Daniel (age 7) about Nintendo. I asked him if he could bring it in to school for show and tell and he was horrified!…
Log on education: Quick, where do the computers go?
History has dealt computer and information science a special role in the inevitable restructuring of the educational system in the United States. In the coming decade…
Expert systems for configuration at Digital: XCON and beyond
Members of Digital Equipment Corporation's team of expert system experts reflect and recount a decade's worth of lessons learned in designing, and building a core of…
Designing documentation to compensate for delocalized plans
Conceptual representation methods play a significant role in facilitating the software process. Recent studies explore and clarify the use of these representations and…
Novice mistakes: are the folk wisdoms correct?
An evaluation of two folk wisdoms serves to elucidate the underlying or "deep-structure" reasons for novice errors.
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