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Not So Good After All? Don't Let 'Altruism' Kill Your Company
Altruism is often heralded as a panacea for management challenges, but it could actually be a death sentence for your team and…
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If You Want to Teach Kids CS, First Teach the Adults
The pathway to CS in schools starts with teaching the adults.
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ACM-ICPC World Finals: St. Petersburg State University Wins!
St. Petersburg State University wins a thrilling ACM-ICPC World Finals, solving seven problems to win the contest on home soil in Ekaterinburg, Russia!
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The ACM-ICPC World Finals: How to Watch from Home
Not traveling to Ekaterinburg for tomorrow's ACM-ICPC World Finals? Fear not!
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Day Two at the ACM-ICPC World Finals
What a day at ICPC 2014! It all began with IBM Tech Trek this morning, followed by the 2014 ACM-ICPC World Finals Opening Ceremony and ending with the IBM Chill...
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Get Ready For the 2014 ACM-ICPC World Finals
Over the next few days I'll be blogging live from Ekaterinburg, Russia, the site of the 38th Annual IBM-Sponsored ACM-ICPC World Finals. The contest itself takes...
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Why Counting CS as Science or Math Is Not Considered Harmful
On the path to computational literacy for all, we need computing in schools, under whatever category.
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HBI: Human-Bubble Interaction
One of the best things about attending the recent ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014) is that you get to play with things.
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The Danger of Requiring Computer Science in K-12 Schools
We are not ready to make CS a requirement for all children in the U.S., even if that's where we want to be one day.
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Exciting Follow-up With an ACM-W Scholarship Recipient
It's exciting to see how these scholarships can shape careers.
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Programming Languages Are the Most Powerful, and Least Usable and Learnable User Interfaces
Programming languages are amazing, but too hard to use and learn.
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Through A Google Glass, Darkly
I have been wearing Google Glass as both a technical assessment of utility and as a social study in human dynamics and expectations.
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Media Coverage of Analysis of AP CS 2013 Exam Results
Barbara Ericson does an annual analysis of AP CS exam results. Her 2013 analysis attracted significant media attention.
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We May Be 100 Years Behind in Making Computing Education Accessible to All
So when should we be able to provide computing education to everyone in the US? Using physics and mathematics as examples, we may be 100 years behind.
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Deferred Maintenance on the Future
Over-worked and sleep-deprived drivers are steering many of our vehicles of discovery on balding tires across potholed roads. Stripping away the metaphor, we are...
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CSEd Week 2013 Was Amazing!
The "Hour of Code" was a hit, with over 15 million people trying out programming.
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26 Years of Supercomputing
From humble beginnings 26 years ago to today, the annual SC conference has shaped our community and our technologies.
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Big Data Analyzed By Big Compute, Big Compute Creates Big Data
The science and engineering communities have worked together through several 1,000x leaps in computing capability, each time managing to push the boundaries of...
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A Summit on Computing Education in South Carolina
A summit of legislators, business leaders, officials from the Department of Education, and teachers convenes in South Carolina to advance computing education in...
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