Computing Education Is Not the Same as Engineering Education
Learning Engineering is not always about Becoming an Engineer. Computing Education outside of Engineering Education is bigger than the part inside.
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Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Graph Databases
SQL represents data stored in rows and tables, while high-growth NoSQL is data stores arranged via nested documents as columnar schemas or key-value pairs. One is relational, the other not so much.
The World’s Most Magnificent Historical Calculating Machines
The design of today's electronic computers is usually not very appealing, in contrast to magnificent mechanical calculating machines from earlier times.
AI or Intelligence Augmentation for Education?
Applications of artificial intelligence to education are spreading and intensifying, but we have the acronym backwards. Building ethical, equitable applications in education will require emphasizing intelligence augmentation (IA), not just artificial intelligence (AI).
The World’s Most Magnificent Historical Automatons
Automatons are ubiquitous. Some of the most magnificent works in the genre have survived in museums.
Is the Pandemic Affecting Science and Engineering Undergraduate Students?
The importance of the students’ voice.
Broadly, NoSQL has an absence of strict schemas for entities/attributes, while SQL rigidly relates/regulates the two.
Tips for Successful Examinations in the Age of Remote Education
Rather than fancying you can control Internet access, design exams to reward students who won't need it.
How I Evaluate a College Computer Science Teaching Record
Teaching is a skill, and the best teachers use the best methods.
The Skills Students Gain in Online Learning
The Corona Year as an opportunity for science and engineering students to practice 21st century skills.
Auditing AI and Autonomous Systems; Building an Infrastructure of Trust
How do we build trust? How can we systematically assure trust in our systems? How would auditing AI and autonomous systems contribute to this goal?
Explaining how the world's most famous accounting/audit disaster—Enron—exemplifies the merits of Independent Audit and helps illustrate how a robust system of oversight is essential to building trust.
What exactly is NoSQL, and why should it matter in today's hyper-connected society?
Identifying publications for first-year research requires some digging and some non-standard choices.
Project Managers Shouldn’t Trust Their Programmers. Do This Instead
Don't simply trust and pay your programmers. Why? Because you may end up losing. Instead, you need to validate and review the work performed. Doing so set you up for winning. Here's why.
The Cross-Sectorial Collaborative Shared Value Strategy
A new strategy – cross-sectorial collaborative shared value – aims to increase the impact of the organization’s social investments.
What Liberal Arts and Sciences Students Need to Know About Computing
Defining goals for computing education beyone CS and Informatics offerings.
Computers for Learning: Charisma that Fails to Disrupt?
Two books examine why large-scale learning technology often doesn’t achieve expectations. Technology can improve learning at scale, but charismatic stories about learning technology too often distort the conditions for success.
Teaching Critical Computing is a Grand Challenge for the Whole CS Curriculum
We need to prepare our students' to have a critical perspective on computing, and that requires changing the curriculum, not just a course.
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