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Collaborating Across Boundaries
In a global world, collaboration and communicating with colleagues in different geographical locations is becoming critically important. What kinds of tools can...
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Introductory Computer Science Lessons--Take Heart!
A discussion of Mark Guzdial's post about why our approach to teaching novice CS students is wrong.
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How We Teach Introductory Computer Science Is Wrong
Research in educational psychology in the last 20 years calls into question our most common teaching methods in introductory courses: Teaching programming by having...
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Collective Intelligence: a Fad or Real Research?
A recent trend in HCI research is the extension of the long time goal of augmenting human intelligence to "augmenting social intelligence." That is, enabling not...
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Grace Hopper Highlights
Tessa reports on highlights from the recent Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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Final Thoughts About Grace Hopper Conference
Just a few final thoughts and pointers to projects and resources.
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Grace Hopper Keynote 2: Fran Berman
Fran Berman's keynote address at the Grace Hopper Conference
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Student Research Competition at Grace Hopper
Highlights of the top six posters/presentations at the Student Research Competition
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Smartphones and Health Systems Research at Intel Seattle
The ubiquity of smartphones and their increasing ability to collect and transmit information will lead the way for the next advances in health monitoring and improvement...
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Grace Hopper Conference Opening Session: Part 1
Grace Hopper Conference--some highlights on who attends and what it's like.
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Opening Day of Grace Hopper Conference
A panoply of posters welcome attendees to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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Designing Effective Warnings
Computer security warnings are something we all see everyday, but many people find them annoying and ignore them. What are better ways of designing warnings?
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CS Education in the States
Decisions about whether there is computer science in the classroom are largely state-based. The most recent example is the State of Kansas, which is moving to remove...
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Donation of Technological Goods and its Impact on a Society
What are the possible consequences of donation of technological goods on the society
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Smart Grids: Getting Personal
How many electronic devices do you own? It is tempting to answer, “Just a handful,” but the truth is much more nuanced. Here’s a simple experiment that will (quite...
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An Einstein-Rosen Bridge
Science acts as a bridge between societies that trasncends culture, and it may be our best hope for finding a common thread in a globalized future.
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Why Doesn't the U.S. Fund Computing Education Research?
How do we bootstrap research in computing education? Existing education research programs only fund the best research, with the best measurement instruments and...
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Sorry, Turing
A happy ending to the petition which asked for an apology to Turing from the British government.
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