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The World's Most Magnificent Historical Automatons
Automatons are ubiquitous. Some of the most magnificent works in the genre have survived in museums.
From BLOG@CACM
Is the Pandemic Affecting Science and Engineering Undergraduate Students?
The importance of the students’ voice.
From BLOG@CACM
How I Evaluate a College Computer Science Teaching Record
Teaching is a skill, and the best teachers use the best methods.
From BLOG@CACM
Lessons From and For Online Teaching
The troika model for successful online teaching.
From BLOG@CACM
The Skills Students Gain in Online Learning
The Corona Year as an opportunity for science and engineering students to practice 21st century skills.
From BLOG@CACM
First-Year Research Sources
Identifying publications for first-year research requires some digging and some non-standard choices.
From BLOG@CACM
Project Managers Shouldn't Trust Their Programmers. Do This Instead
Don't simply trust and pay your programmers. Why? Because you may end up losing. Instead, you need to validate and review the work performed. Doing so set you up...
From BLOG@CACM
What Liberal Arts and Sciences Students Need to Know About Computing
Defining goals for computing education beyone CS and Informatics offerings.
From BLOG@CACM
Computers for Learning: Charisma that Fails to Disrupt?
Two books examine why large-scale learning technology often doesn’t achieve expectations. Technology can improve learning at scale, but charismatic stories about...
From BLOG@CACM
Teaching Critical Computing is a Grand Challenge for the Whole CS Curriculum
We need to prepare our students' to have a critical perspective on computing, and that requires changing the curriculum, not just a course.
From BLOG@CACM
Time to Exhume PSP?
The Personal Software Process encourages programmer discipline. Largely forgotten, it does have a few wrinkles, but understanding and applying its core ideas remains...
From BLOG@CACM
The Year-Round Joys and Benefits of Open Source Software
One of the things that makes us programmers feel warm and fuzzy is open source software. Companies support open source too. Why give something away for free? A...
From BLOG@CACM
Computer Systems Research: The Joys, the Perils, and How to Count Beans Well
This post is meant to highlight my subjective take on the joys and the road bumps on the way to doing innovative work in computer systems.
From BLOG@CACM
Dijkstra Was Wrong About 'Radical Novelty': Metaphors in CS Education
The most cited CS education paper is, unfortunately, wrong.
From BLOG@CACM
Why Great Programmers Pull Back the Curtain While Programming
Want to be a great programmer? If so, you have to pull back the curtain and learn how software really works. A deeper understanding helps programmers further their...
From BLOG@CACM
Is Computer Science More or Less Suitable for Distance Learning?
How undergraduate computer science students perceive the discipline based on their distance learning experience during the 2020 Spring semester – the Corona Semester...
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Why Focus on Technologies for Human Learning?
By choosing human learning as a topic area, computer scientists can contribute to major societal challenges, win grants in additional programs, and tackle new computer...
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Here's Why Resentment is the Key to Happiness
Do you find happiness to be fleeting? That shiny new car or big job promotion makes you happy for a few weeks but quickly turns into the same old same old? Maybe...
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Determining CS Student Preferences During the Corona Semester
What does the Corona Semester reveal about computer science students’ preferences when learning computer science?
From BLOG@CACM