Communications of the ACM
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August 2008
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Dijkstra Was Wrong About 'Radical Novelty': Metaphors in CS Education
11.30.2020The most cited CS education paper is, unfortunately, wrong.
Why Great Programmers Pull Back the Curtain While Programming
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Time to Assess National AI Policies
11.24.2020The Center for AI and Digital Policy has undertaken the first comparative review of national artificial intelligence policies.
Cheriton Computer Scientists Create Nifty Solution to Catastrophic Network Fault
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Climate Researchers Enlist Big Cloud Providers for Big Data Challenges
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TLDR: This AI Sums Up Research Papers in a Sentence
11.30.2020Software called TLDR (too long, didn't read) automatically produces one-sentence …