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Commentary on a recent study which evalauted the impact of Twitter on student engagement and grades.Judy Robertson From BLOG@CACM | March 24, 2011 at 09:26 AM
It is our responsibility as scientists and engineers to understand what can or cannot be done from a technical point of view on privacy.Jeannette M. Wing From BLOG@CACM | March 21, 2011 at 01:40 PM
As I have followed the international news regarding the Japanese disaster, I have been struck by the challenges each news organization has faced in explaining technical...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | March 20, 2011 at 06:44 PM
If you’re interested in using or developing algorithm visualizations (AVs), you should visit AlgoViz.org, a portal dedicated to creating a repository of AVs and...Jack Rosenberger From BLOG@CACM | March 11, 2011 at 06:56 AM
Matthias Felleisen and a team of computer scientists have developed the TeachScheme! Project, which provides high school teachers with courseware and other tools...Jack Rosenberger From BLOG@CACM | March 10, 2011 at 08:55 AM
Verification is maturing to the point where it will become integrated into mainstream software development.Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | February 28, 2011 at 01:20 PM
The NSF CE21 Community Meeting highlighted the opportunity that computing has to catch up with the rest of STEM on education issues.
Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | February 24, 2011 at 09:32 AM
Ledin's call for teaching malware to all undergraduate students conflicts with my understanding of the purpose of an undergraduate CS degree.
Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | February 24, 2011 at 09:29 AM
This is an article describing some recent (and bizarre) interfaces to support cooking. The intersection of computer science and culinary art is not as small as...Judy Robertson From BLOG@CACM | February 19, 2011 at 09:31 AM
As the recent performance of IBM's Watson system on the game show Jeopardy! illustrated, the combination of large-scale data, rich algorithm suites and powerful...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | February 18, 2011 at 04:17 PM
In only a couple years, improved smartphones and laptops have closed the niche that netbooks lived in. Rather than mourn the loss of netbooks, let's celebrate their...Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | February 15, 2011 at 04:10 PM
What's the relationship between functionality and design? What kinds of factors influence whether people do or don't adopt a technology?Jason Hong From BLOG@CACM | February 6, 2011 at 10:03 PM
Detailed data collection at ETH Zurich over eight years shows what entering computer science students already know in computer usage and programming.
Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | January 25, 2011 at 09:01 AM
Peer Instruction is an important pedagogical approach that is promoted by physics education researchers. I'm trying it for the first time in my CS class, and it's...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | January 24, 2011 at 09:33 AM
A federal program that invests in information technology research and development asks the community three sets of questions related to making K-12 computer science...Cameron Wilson From BLOG@CACM | January 18, 2011 at 01:27 PM
U.S. government agencies are spending boatloads of money on pushing the envelope of massive compute servers, but appear to be ignoring the fact that many research...Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | January 14, 2011 at 04:54 PM
There is one proven way to improve the state of software, following the the airline industry's spectacular improvements of safety. The IT industry ignores it. Why...Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | January 13, 2011 at 01:53 PM