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The Internet at 50
A personalized take on three things we have to celebrate about the Internet today.
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Cybersecurity in the Trump Era
Deterrence is simply the wrong way to think about cybersecurity.
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Ethical Theories Spotted in Silicon Valley
Some of the prevailing theories of ethics surface in modern high tech. We take a quick and rather superficial look at their tracks on the ground, noting especially...
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Just Press Reboot
Why does the press continue to talk about "computer problems"?
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Fact Versus Frivolity in Facebook
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.
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ACM's Open-Conference Principle and Political Reality
The Open-Conference Principle is aimed at benefiting society.
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The Work and Inspiration of the Commission on the History and Philosophy of Computing
The international organization HaPoC promotes and sponsors research that brings together the history and the philosophy of computing.
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'Figure It Out' Isn't Enough: Striking a New Balance Between Understanding, Problem-Solving, and Design in Introductory CS Classes
Intro CS courses should help students understand programs more and problem-solve less.
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Fiction as Model Theory
Like model theory, fiction deploys a theory and an interpretation. An interpretation that makes the statements of the theory true demonstrates consistency, in...
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The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack
Despite more than two decades of consistent public warnings that have reached the highest levels of government, cybersecurity throughout much of the world is in...
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What Happened?
As forecasters attempt to understand exactly what happened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the data itself may hold vital clues.
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Null-Pointer Crashes, No More
Void safety is a guarantee that no code will ever catch a reference with its pants down.
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The Work and Inspiration of the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers
The Newsletter of the Committee on Computing and Philosophy of the American Philosophical Association offers a wide range of scholarly work in the philosophy of...
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Taking Incremental Steps Towards CS For All
U.S. states are developing novel, incremental approaches to CS for All.
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Is Academia Guilty of Intellectual Colonization of Practice?
Researchers should not treat practitioners as mere objects of their studies or simple sources of data, but work towards creating research partnerships with practitioners...
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Database Decay and What To Do About It
In our opinion, database decay results from the multi-department organization of large implementations.
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Tech Industry Ph.D.s: Academia Can Be Nicer Than You Think
If more Ph.D.s do not return to the academy, there will not be enough graduates capable of taking all those high tech jobs.
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Designing the Activities For a 'Computing Lab' to Support Computational Literacy
Developing the teaching techniques so everyone develops computational literacy skills.
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How We Teach Should Be Independent Of Who We Are Teaching
A look at teaching and diversity in Computer Science.
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