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Charles Babbage and the Loom
Babbage wanted to control his analytical engine, regarded as the ancestor of the modern-day computer, with punched cards.
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How to Attend an Academic Conference
Tips on attending academic conferences for young CS researchers
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Evaluating the Success of Mentoring Programs
Can HCI evaluation methods help to assess the effectiveness of mentoring programs for women?
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Choosing Successful Research
How to choose research projects that are more likely to be successful.
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What Makes a Good HCI Systems Paper?
Proposing a standard for reviewing HCI systems papers.
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What the Cloud Means For HCI
The CTO roundtable on cloud computing article in a past issue of CACM made me start thinking about what cloud computing really means for HCI and how people will...
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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...
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Grace Hopper Highlights
Tessa reports on highlights from the recent Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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Venture Research
HCI research is moving out of the lab and onto the web. This new style of research -- Venture Research -- calls for a different set of skills and different metrics...
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The Future of Applications?
With the Web delivering richer content to our desktops, why don't today's applications let us seamlessly create that content?
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Building a Smarter Web
As more information moves to the Web, we need better tools to manage it. Today's tools focus on static Web pages. However, I claim that the Web is becoming a platform...
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Visibility Matters: Why You Need a Professional Web Page
If you do research in computer science, you need to have a professional web page summarizing your research career. Let me tell you why it matters, and what information...
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