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A MERge Analysis of an Organizational Change: The Case of Internalization at Home
How the Technion assimilated its international activities into its other units’ activities and, at the same time, reduced operational…
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Soresini: A Very Rare Book on the History of Computing
The work is an extremely instructive, rich history of calculating technology. It also includes the analog world and automata, and is written in Italian.
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Competitions, Not Confrontation
The ACM as an organizer of international cooperation.
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Charles Babbage and the Loom
Babbage wanted to control his analytical engine, regarded as the ancestor of the modern-day computer, with punched cards.
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An Open Call to Establish an Interdisciplinary Data Science Education Journal
In this blog, we describe our vision for a journal that would focus on data science education from the interdisciplinarity perceptive.
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Computing Education Is Not the Same as Engineering Education
Learning Engineering is not always about Becoming an Engineer. Computing Education outside of Engineering Education is bigger than the part inside.
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The World's Most Magnificent Historical Calculating Machines
The design of today's electronic computers is usually not very appealing, in contrast to magnificent mechanical calculating machines from earlier times.
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Misnomer and Malgorithm
The algorithm should be respected; the malgorithm should be rejected.
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AI or Intelligence Augmentation for Education?
Applications of artificial intelligence to education are spreading and intensifying, but we have the acronym backwards. Building ethical, equitable applications...
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How I Evaluate a College Computer Science Teaching Record
Teaching is a skill, and the best teachers use the best methods.
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The Skills Students Gain in Online Learning
The Corona Year as an opportunity for science and engineering students to practice 21st century skills.
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Auditing AI and Autonomous Systems; Building an Infrastructure of Trust
How do we build trust? How can we systematically assure trust in our systems? How would auditing AI and autonomous systems contribute to this goal? Explaining...
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First-Year Research Sources
Identifying publications for first-year research requires some digging and some non-standard choices.
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The Cross-Sectorial Collaborative Shared Value Strategy
A new strategy – cross-sectorial collaborative shared value – aims to increase the impact of the organization’s social investments.
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What Liberal Arts and Sciences Students Need to Know About Computing
Defining goals for computing education beyone CS and Informatics offerings.
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