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Mystery Dating of the World-famous 'Millionaire' Calculating Machine Solved
Regarding the discovery of new documents about the H.W. Egli AG (Zurich) company in the Museum für Kommunikation, Berne, Switzerland…
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The Goal of Software Testing
Finding errors is not the same strategy as making sure that a product works.
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Teaching Two Programming Languages in the First CS Course
Should we teach two different programming languages in the first CS course? Probably not -- here's what we know.
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Articulation of Decision Responsibility
Can we establish a locution for the results of a program that does not ascribe decision-making power?
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When Will We Learn?
Massive software failure once again, with no lesson from past occurrences and no lesson for future systems.
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ACM Public Policy Update: 100-Day Highlights
Chronicling the First 100 Days this year of ACM's member-driven policy efforts in Europe and the U.S.
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The Era of Hackers Is Over
The ability to hack algorithms and make data structures optimal was a virtue of programmers a few decades ago. The current reality is much different, with the ability...
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Integrating CS to Improve Scores in Math, Science, and English Language Arts: New Result from Code.org and Outliers
Evidence from Broward County of integrated CS curriculum having an impact on standardized tests
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Examples of Phenomenology in Computing
The branch of philosophy known as phenomenology can broaden our understanding of what is really going on in the tasks we address with computing.
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What Went Wrong? Facebook and 'Sharing' Data with Cambridge Analytica
The road to the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal is strewn with failures.
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Securing Threats to Election Systems
Election systems are supposed to be disconnected from the Internet, for obvious and sensible reasons. Most elections today, however, use computers.
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Time To End The vi/Emacs Debate
If you still use Emacs, I feel for you. Perhaps it is time to give vi a try.
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A Computing Education Research Perspective on Programmable Programming Languages
Computing education researcher take on the implications of programmable programming languages
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Did We Just Replace the 'Knowledge Bottleneck' With a 'Data Bottleneck'?
In practice, it seems that avoiding the knowledge acquisition bottleneck has not resulted in any net gain.
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Why Code Comments Still Matter
Some believe that commenting code is bad, but comments still matter in our programs.
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Massive Retaliation 2.0
Reacting to the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review, which now tries to extend nuclear deterrence to cyberspace.
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