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Learning Through Twitter
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Learning Through Twitter

Commentary on a recent study which evalauted the impact of Twitter on student engagement and grades.

Call to Arms: Science and Engineering For Privacy
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Call to Arms: Science and Engineering For Privacy

It is our responsibility as scientists and engineers to understand what can or cannot be done from a technical point of view on privacy.

Explaining Science and Engineering
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Explaining Science and Engineering

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...

Algorithm Visualizations and Community Building
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Algorithm Visualizations and Community Building

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...

TeachScheme! U­sing Mathematics to Teach Programming
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TeachScheme! U­sing Mathematics to Teach Programming

Matthias Felleisen and a team of computer scientists have developed the TeachScheme! Project, which provides high school teachers with courseware and other tools...

Who Needs a Tablet?
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Who Needs a Tablet?

Tablets do not solve a mainstream problem, they only serve a niche.

Software Verification Turns Mainstream
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Software Verification Turns Mainstream

Verification is maturing to the point where it will become integrated into mainstream software development.

At the NSF CE21 Meeting: We Have Such a Long Way to Go
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At the NSF CE21 Meeting: We Have Such a Long Way to Go

The NSF CE21 Community Meeting highlighted the opportunity that computing has to catch up with the rest of STEM on education issues.

Let's Teach Malware When It's Ready: The Purpose of ­Undergrad CS
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Let's Teach Malware When It's Ready: The Purpose of ­Undergrad CS

Ledin's call for teaching malware to all undergraduate students conflicts with my understanding of the purpose of an undergraduate CS degree. 

The Wonderful World of Cooking Interfaces
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The Wonderful World of Cooking Interfaces

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...

Intellectual Amplification via Computing
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Intellectual Amplification via Computing

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...

Who Needs a Netbook?
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Who Needs a Netbook?

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...

Design, Functionality, and Diffusion of Innovations
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Design, Functionality, and Diffusion of Innovations

What's the relationship between functionality and design? What kinds of factors influence whether people do or don't adopt a technology?

What 'Beginning' Students Already Know: The Evidence
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What 'Beginning' Students Already Know: The Evidence

Detailed data collection at ETH Zurich over eight years shows what entering computer science students already know in computer usage and programming.

Peer Instruction For Seeing What Students Know (and Don't)
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Peer Instruction For Seeing What Students Know (and Don't)

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...

How to Make a Geek Goddess Spit with Rage
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How to Make a Geek Goddess Spit with Rage

 A rather grumpy review of the book How to Be a Geek Goddess.

Let the Feds Know Your Thoughts on K-12 Computer Science Education
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Let the Feds Know Your Thoughts on K-12 Computer Science Education

 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...

Big Data, Big Problems
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Big Data, Big Problems

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...

Again: The One Sure Way to Advance Software Engineering
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Again: The One Sure Way to Advance Software Engineering

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...

The Best Job in the World
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The Best Job in the World

Where does software engineer come in a ranked list of jobs?
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