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Is Computing a Team Sport?
I take a peek at the history of computing to see if pioneering early developments were the results of team effort.
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Now What? Order and Test
Exploring minimal control flow operations ends in flowcharts.
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Misnomer and Malgorithm
The algorithm should be respected; the malgorithm should be rejected.
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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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Deadlines of the Digital Turn
Sometimes the digital turn forces us to designate things that aren't there.
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Computing Ethics and Teaching It
Ethics can and should be presented to computer science students in appropriate ways.
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The Virus Analogy and Validation
The comparison between organic viruses and computer viruses is compelling. But why?
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Voting as Tallying in Public
Voting requires common acknowledgement. Can that be achieved in automation?
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The Vote as a Declared Datum
A vote is a datum that sheds its original identity but persists.
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Vice Epistemology of the Internet
How can we apply virtue epistemology to the problem of fake news?
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Lessons from a First-Year Seminar
Teaching a first-year seminar to a mixed group musters the basics of computer science.
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Variable Vagaries
The variable, construed as an L-value, makes some offbeat appearances.
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The Artificialistic Fallacy
Ethics discussions of artificial intelligence reveal a fallacy of omission.
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What Is a Variable?
A stab at a definition, for outsiders, of what we in computing mean by the term "variable" raises more questions than it answers.
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FictionStein
Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.
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Tech User Responsibility
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
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First-Class Philosophical Failure
Interrogation of "first-class object" as an analog to human life goes nowhere.
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Articulation of Decision Responsibility
Can we establish a locution for the results of a program that does not ascribe decision-making power?
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Examples of Phenomenology in Computing
The branch of philosophy known as phenomenology can broaden our understanding of what is really going on in the tasks we address with computing.12