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Experiencing Loops in Time
We don't experience program loops as blocks, started over, because time is one-way.
From BLOG@CACM
Lessons from a First-Year Seminar
Teaching a first-year seminar to a mixed group musters the basics of computer science.
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Lazy Developers Are the Best Developers
Lazy developers stick to the project scope while forcing the project team to understand and fix their own code and issues.
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What Help Should We Provide to Students Learning to Program?
Insights from a recent Dagstuhl Seminar on "Notional Machines and Programming Language Semantics in Education."
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Leonardo's Self-driving Car
Leonardo da Vinci, who died 500 years ago, had already designed a self-driving car.
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Hazardous Enthusiasm and How Eagerness Can Kill A Project
Many otherwise competent software developers and potential contributors end up being overwhelmed by "hazardous enthusiasm." They end up overwhelmed by their excitement...
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Turing Lectures Open ACM FCRC
The Turing Lectures of 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureates Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun were highlights of the welcome session of ACM FCRC.
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A Design Perspective on Computational Thinking
Maybe we can just design away the need to teach computational thinking
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How Do You Calculate with the Sector?
The sector was developed in the second half of the 16th century, and was in widespread use until the end of the 19th century,
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Variable Vagaries
The variable, construed as an L-value, makes some offbeat appearances.
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How to Support Research in Computer Science via Russian Scientific Foundations
Russia is lagging behind the world average in fields including medicine, the agricultural sciences, biotechnology, pharmacology, the social sciences, and computer...
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Google Translate Does Not Understand the Content of the Texts
How well do translation programs translate?
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Is the Trolley Problem Useful for Studying Autonomous Vehicles?
Does the trolley problem offer any useful insights for autonomous vehicles, in terms of design of or public policy around these systems? Here are several reasons...
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How to Reduce Long Lines at CS Office Hours in Five Tweets
Evidence-based practices that will likely reduce the long lines at the CS professor's door.
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Breaking the Chains of Freelance Slavery
The idea of working from home is no longer novel, and there are a number of drawbacks to consider.
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Women Now Outnumber Men in Medical Schools. Computer Science Should Be Next.
This story about encouragement tells us how we can change girls' and women's lives.
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Soundness and Completeness: With Precision
The two key properties of program analysis are dual of each other.
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Immigrants Help Solve the Looming STEM Worker Shortage
Our economic vitality depends on them.
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Blockchain Was the First, but Will Not Be the Last
What is the outlook for Zero-Trust Decentralization, and should we expect other products aside from Blockchain?
From BLOG@CACM