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Jan 17 2022

Anti-Racist Computing Education: No More Excuses

On this #MLKDay, a list of resources to help center racial equity and justice in CS classrooms and a reminder that the CS Education community must make good on individual and collective resolve to attend to racial justice in every classroom at every level of education.

Shuchi Grover

Computing Profession

Jan 3 2022

Software Stories: Legal Trouble

Legal troubles represent another collection of potential pitfalls where developers often find themselves unprepared.

Doug Meil

Computing Applications

Jan 3 2022

Changes in the Technion’s Teaching Strategies During the Pandemic

This post describes three significant changes that took place during the pandemic in the instructional strategies at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Orit Hazzan, Efrat Aviram, Yael Erez, and Waseem Makhoul

Education

Jan 3 2022

Cultivating Habits: -1 +2 for Researchers

The New Year is stereotypically the time when we resolve to start some good habits and get rid of some of the bad.

Saurabh Bagchi

Computing Profession

Dec 21 2021

Finding a Path to CS for All: How Many U.S. High School Students Have Taken CS?

How do we measure progress towards CS for All?

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Dec 15 2021

Framing the Description of the Shrinking Pipeline

The shrinking pipeline refers to the low percentages of women earning computer science academic degrees and holding faculty positions.

Orit Hazzan and Heftzi Zohar

Computing Profession

Dec 1 2021

Original Roman Pocket Calculators are Extremely Rare

As far as we know, only three or four original specimens of the Roman hand abacus have survived.

Herbert Bruderer

Computing Profession

Nov 28 2021

Experiencing Loops in Time

We don't experience program loops as blocks, started over, because time is one-way.

Robin K. Hill

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Nov 23 2021

AI Education for Teens: Lifting the Hood on Data and Machine Learning

What are key ideas and intuitions foundational to AI that AI education in secondary schools should target? This blog post describes our approach to teaching AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML) to 13-15 year olds through situations/issues set in the context of cybersecurity in ways that "lift the hood" on how ML models are designed, how they they work, and the impact of human decisions in this process.

Shuchi Grover and Brian Broll

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Nov 23 2021

Computational Thinking: The Discussion Continues

Perspectives on computational thinking.

Noa Ragonis and Orit Hazzan

Computing Profession

Nov 22 2021

Publishing, The Choice and The Luck

Selecting publishing targets is a process with no simple solutions.

Carlos Baquero

Computing Profession

Nov 22 2021

Major Investments in U.S. CS Education on the Long Road to CS for All

The 2021 CSEdCon featured big investments in growing Computer Science Education in the U.S.

Mark Guzdial

Education

Nov 18 2021

How to Reduce the Carbon Emissions of Your Website

We can control our online ecological impact.

Alex Husar

Computing Profession

Nov 12 2021

What Should be Done About Facebook?

The recent release of the Facebook papers by a whistleblower has confirmed that leaders at the company have long known about problems facilitated by their social media, including disinformation, misinformation, hate speech, depression, and more. There's been a lot of talk about regulators stepping in. What kinds of questions, insights, or advice might our community offer these regulators?

Jason Hong

Computing Profession

Nov 10 2021

Hybrid Models for Legacy Modernization in Digital Transformation Programs

There is now a greater need to move away from legacy technologies than ever before.

Madhu Pulasseri

Computing Applications

Nov 8 2021

Patent Protection in Europe

Up to the second half of the 19th century —with the exception of the industrial power Great Britain—the protection of inventions was inadequate and strongly disputed.

Herbert Bruderer

Computing Profession

Nov 8 2021

Safe AI in Education Needs You

Artificial intelligence is coming to your learners and will raise challenging issues that need experts like you. Learn how you can get involved in AI and Educational Policy.

Leah Friedman, Nancye Blair Black, Erin Walker, and Jeremy Roschelle

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Nov 1 2021

Reinforcing Computer Science Education

What do computer science students need to know to be successful in industry?

Doug Meil

Computing Applications

Oct 28 2021

Is It Difficult to Bypass the Protection That Uses Big Data?

Big data analytics systems identify signs of unauthorized activity in vast arrays of structured and unstructured data.

Alex Vakulov

Computing Profession

Oct 12 2021

Not Worth a Thousand Words

Pictures are no substitute for substance.

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Applications

Oct 7 2021

Language Imitation Games and the Arrival of Broad and Shallow AI

On the impact of large language models.

Subbarao Kambhampati

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Oct 7 2021

Computers Were Originally Humans

Until the middle of the 20th century, computers were in fact humans who performed calculations.

Herbert Bruderer

Computing Profession

Oct 1 2021

Software Quotes and Counter Quotes

Certain phrases and motifs are repeated in software efforts.

Doug Meil

Computing Applications

Sep 29 2021

Students are Interested in People, and Teachers Value Multiple Languages: ICER 2021 Pointers

A couple of excellent papers from the International Computing Education Research conference.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

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