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Jul 20 2021

The ambitious systems that we develop today need a proper requirements structure. The plan defined here organizes requirements specification along four books, the four PEGS of requirements: Project, Environment, Goals and System.

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Profession

Jul 8 2021

How Does One Calculate With A Circular Slide Rule?

The circular slide rule was widely used until the 1970s.

Herbert Bruderer

Architecture and Hardware

Jul 7 2021

10 Tips for Implementing Executable Exams

The focus is on executable exams for an Introduction to Computer Science course.

Yael Erez and Orit Hazzan

Computing Profession

Jul 6 2021

20 Years of ‘Software Engineering for Innovative Internet Applications’

Addressing the question: Why is software engineering part of the undergraduate computer science curriculum?

Vivek S. Buzruk

Education

Jul 1 2021

A Chance for Rebirth

Application of DECT technology in the concept of the Internet of Things.

Andrei Sukhov and Igor Sorokin

Computing Profession

Jun 30 2021

Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Key Value

Of all non-relationals, the key-value store is by far the most popular due to its extreme simplicity.

Alex Williams

Computing Applications

Jun 24 2021

Inclusive Integration of Computing in School Districts: Two Essential Tradeoffs

When integrating computer science and computational thinking in a school district through inclusive learning pathways, school district leaders face challenging tradeoffs regarding ambition and specificity.

Merijke Coenraad, Brian Giovanini, Kelly Mills, and Jeremy Roschelle

Computing Profession

Jun 23 2021

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.

Saurabh Bagchi

Computing Applications

Jun 18 2021

Why Did We Ever Think the First Programming Language Didn’t Matter?

Maybe the first programming language didn't really matter, because students learning programming were different.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Jun 14 2021

The Evolution of Computing Power in Switzerland

Milestones in the history of computing from the Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Lugano.

Herbert Bruderer

Computing Profession

Jun 9 2021

A MERge Analysis of an Organizational Change: The Case of Internalization at Home

How the Technion assimilated its international activities into its other units’ activities and, at the same time, reduced operational costs related to its international activities.

Ronit Lis-Hacohen and Orit Hazzan

Computing Profession

Jun 1 2021

New Areas for Application of Self-Organizing Routing

To organize the productive work of multiprocessor chips, it is necessary to establish an efficient distribution of computational processes between computational cores.

Andrei Sukhov and Aleksandr Romanov

Architecture and Hardware

Jun 1 2021

The Art Of Speedy Systems Conversions

System conversions represent a type of development in which project scope includes all the effort of an initial software release, plus an entirely new set of complexities.

Doug Meil

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2021

Soresini: A Very Rare Book on the History of Computing

The work is an extremely instructive, rich history of calculating technology. It also includes the analog world and automata, and is written in Italian.

Herbert Bruderer

Computing Profession

Jun 1 2021

Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Document

Document databases are particularly useful in app development.

Alex Williams

Computing Applications

May 30 2021

Now What? Order and Test

Exploring minimal control flow operations ends in flowcharts.

Robin K. Hill

Computing Applications

May 21 2021

Competitions, Not Confrontation

The ACM as an organizer of international cooperation.

Andrei Sukhov

Computing Profession

May 21 2021

Science-Changing Code

The case of NumPy.

Benoit Baudry and Martin Monperrus

Computing Applications

May 19 2021

The Name Game

Is there a better name for the Association for Computing Machinery?

Mario Antoine Aoun

Computing Profession

May 17 2021

New Social-Economic Trends in Computer Science Education

Considering new social-economic trends in Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Data Science education.

Orit Hazzan

Education

May 11 2021

Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Column

The elements of one of the most used and popular data designs around.

Alex Williams

Computing Applications

May 7 2021

Charles Babbage and the Loom

Babbage wanted to control his analytical engine, regarded as the ancestor of the modern-day computer, with punched cards.

Herbert Bruderer

Computing Profession

Apr 26 2021

An Open Call to Establish an Interdisciplinary Data Science Education Journal

In this blog, we describe our vision for a journal that would focus on data science education from the interdisciplinarity perceptive.

Koby Mike and Orit Hazzan

Computing Profession

Apr 26 2021

From U-boats to ‘U-bots’

Considering the outlook for undersea cyberwar.

John Arquilla

Computing Profession

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