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Is the Pandemic Affecting Science and Engineering Undergraduate Students?
The importance of the students’ voice.
From BLOG@CACM
The Formal Picnic Approach to Requirements
A mathematical excursion will improve your requirements.
From BLOG@CACM
Direct Instruction is Better than Discovery, but What Should We be Directly Instructing?
We should teach students directly, not expect them to discover for themselves. What should we be teaching directly?
From BLOG@CACM
A Tale of Two CTs (and a Revised Timeline for Computational Thinking)
Rethinking the timeline of Computational Thinking to recognize several computer scientists in addition to Jeannette Wing.
From BLOG@CACM
Scalable Intelligent Systems by 2025
People are fundamental to a Scalable Intelligent System; there is no computer-only solution that can implement such a system.
From BLOG@CACM
Ten Traits of Exceptional Innovators
I have had the privilege of meeting, and in some cases closely interacting with, pioneer scientists, technologists, and entrepreneurs, including Nobel, Fields,...
From BLOG@CACM
What Children Want to Know About Computers
Does a super computer have a really big chip in it? Would we be more or less clever if computers had never been invented? These are the sorts of questions which...
From BLOG@CACM
Changing Who Pays for CS Professional Development in the U.S. and Who Controls It: It Has to be Local
In the U.S., a shift in who pays to prepare computer science (CS) teachers.
From BLOG@CACM
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.
From BLOG@CACM
What Turing and Church Left Out
Concurrency control for readers and writers in a database is a classic problem that illustrates the power of message passing.
From BLOG@CACM
Tech User Responsibility
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
From BLOG@CACM
Computational Thinking, Education for the Poor and Rich, and Dealing with Schools and Teachers As They Are: A Twitter Convo
A Twitter conversation turned into a narrative on computational thinking
From BLOG@CACM
NL Is Not NLP++
This is a plea to the technical community working in the domain of natural language processing and natural language understanding to appreciate the difference between...
From BLOG@CACM
How Did People Write Machine Learning Code in the Past?
Summarizes popular programming languages and libraries that have been used for machine learning throughout the past two decades.
From BLOG@CACM
Computer Science Encyclopedia Can Fill a Gap
Our profession has the credibility and resources to create an Encyclopedia that will serve as the professional standard.
From BLOG@CACM
Did Albert Einstein Calculate on the 'Millionaire' in Zurich?
In 1897, ETH Zurich was the first university in the world to have a copy of the legendary four-species calculating machine Millionaire.
From Communications of the ACM
Discovering Bugs, or Ensuring Success?
Finding errors is not the same as making certain a software product works correctly.
From BLOG@CACM
Irrational Exuberance and the 'FATE' of Technology
Questions of verification, safety, and trust must be central when we embody intelligence in physical systems.
From BLOG@CACM
First-Class Philosophical Failure
Interrogation of "first-class object" as an analog to human life goes nowhere.
From BLOG@CACM
Moving Computing Education Past Argument from Authority: Stuart Reges and Women Who Code
Computing educators often make decisions based on arguments from authority. Time to move on.
From BLOG@CACM