Communications of the ACM
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August 2008
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Coding in Schools as New Vocationalism: Larry Cuban on What Schools Are For
07.18.2017What are schools for, and is coding a necessary part of that?
Deep Dictionary
06.20.2017The abstraction from big data on English words of distributed vector representations computing simple semantic aspects has drawn interest from …
CS Education on Tablets for CS for All (#Tablets4CS for #CSforAll)
06.15.2017If we design CS education for tablets, everyone will learn better.
The Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed With YouTube
07.25.2017Toddlers crave power. Too bad for them, they have none …
Smart Contact Lenses and Eye Implants Will Give Doctors Medical Insights
07.25.2017Poets say the eyes are a window to the soul. But …
New Camera Designed by Stanford Researchers Could Improve Robot Vision and Virtual Reality
07.25.2017A new four-dimensional camera captures almost 140 degrees of information …