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How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction
Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based …
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Finding a Path to CS for All: How Many U.S. High School Students Have Taken CS?
How do we measure progress towards CS for All?
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Framing the Description of the Shrinking Pipeline
The shrinking pipeline refers to the low percentages of women earning computer science academic degrees and holding faculty positions.
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Original Roman Pocket Calculators are Extremely Rare
As far as we know, only three or four original specimens of the Roman hand abacus have survived.
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Experiencing Loops in Time
We don't experience program loops as blocks, started over, because time is one-way.
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Computational Thinking: The Discussion Continues
Perspectives on computational thinking.
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AI Education for Teens: Lifting the Hood on Data and Machine Learning
What are key ideas and intuitions foundational to AI that AI education in secondary schools should target? This blog post describes our approach to teaching AI...
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Publishing, The Choice and The Luck
Selecting publishing targets is a process with no simple solutions.
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Major Investments in U.S. CS Education on the Long Road to CS for All
The 2021 CSEdCon featured big investments in growing Computer Science Education in the U.S.
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How to Reduce the Carbon Emissions of Your Website
We can control our online ecological impact.
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Safe AI in Education Needs You
Artificial intelligence is coming to your learners and will raise challenging issues that need experts like you. Learn how you can get involved in AI and Educational...
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What Should be Done About Facebook?
The recent release of the Facebook papers by a whistleblower has confirmed that leaders at the company have long known about problems facilitated by their social...
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Hybrid Models for Legacy Modernization in Digital Transformation Programs
There is now a greater need to move away from legacy technologies than ever before.
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Patent Protection in Europe
Up to the second half of the 19th century —with the exception of the industrial power Great Britain—the protection of inventions was inadequate and strongly disputed...
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Reinforcing Computer Science Education
What do computer science students need to know to be successful in industry?
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Is It Difficult to Bypass the Protection That Uses Big Data?
Big data analytics systems identify signs of unauthorized activity in vast arrays of structured and unstructured data.
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Language Imitation Games and the Arrival of Broad and Shallow AI
On the impact of large language models.
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Computers Were Originally Humans
Until the middle of the 20th century, computers were in fact humans who performed calculations.
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Software Quotes and Counter Quotes
Certain phrases and motifs are repeated in software efforts.
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