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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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Tech User Responsibility
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
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Computational Thinking, Education for the Poor and Rich, and Dealing with Schools and Teachers As They Are: A Twitter Convo
A Twitter conversation turned into a narrative on computational thinking
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NL Is Not NLP++
This is a plea to the technical community working in the domain of natural language processing and natural language understanding to appreciate the difference between...
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How Did People Write Machine Learning Code in the Past?
Summarizes popular programming languages and libraries that have been used for machine learning throughout the past two decades.
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Computer Science Encyclopedia Can Fill a Gap
Our profession has the credibility and resources to create an Encyclopedia that will serve as the professional standard.
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Did Albert Einstein Calculate on the 'Millionaire' in Zurich?
In 1897, ETH Zurich was the first university in the world to have a copy of the legendary four-species calculating machine Millionaire.
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Discovering Bugs, or Ensuring Success?
Finding errors is not the same as making certain a software product works correctly.
From BLOG@CACM
Irrational Exuberance and the 'FATE' of Technology
Questions of verification, safety, and trust must be central when we embody intelligence in physical systems.
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First-Class Philosophical Failure
Interrogation of "first-class object" as an analog to human life goes nowhere.
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Moving Computing Education Past Argument from Authority: Stuart Reges and Women Who Code
Computing educators often make decisions based on arguments from authority. Time to move on.
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Blame-Free Quality Control
How liable should programmers be for the quality of their software?
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Discussing Empirical Answers to Questions of Software Engineering
Focusing on what helps software developers.
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Algorithms Have Been Around for 4,000 Years
For some years now, the terms "algorithms", "digitization" and "artificial intelligence" have become commonplace. However, these terms are rarely explained. One...
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A Software Architect Is the Person You Blame
How efficient is your current software project, and could it potentially benefit from the addition of a software architect?
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Validating Beneficial AI
The foundational work of the first AI for Good Summit allows the AI community to work together to create an infrastructure for responsible communication, development...
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My First Interaction, Design, and Children Conference, IDC 2018
IDC 2018 was a fun conference with lots of great insights.
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From 007 to 'Agent 111'
James Bond-like spies have been eclipsed by a new generation of operatives who don't travel the world (not physically, anyway) or drink martinis, shaken or stirred...
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