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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

Apr 22 2021

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.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Apr 21 2021

What Happened to Watson Health?

A case study in portfolio management.

Doug Meil

Computing Profession

Apr 9 2021

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.

Alex Williams

Computing Applications

Apr 8 2021

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.

Herbert Bruderer

Architecture and Hardware

Mar 27 2021

Misnomer and Malgorithm

The algorithm should be respected; the malgorithm should be rejected.

Robin K. Hill

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 23 2021

Anna Karenina On Development Methodologies

The quest for development productivity.

Doug Meil

Computing Applications

Mar 15 2021

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).

Jeremy Roschelle, Pati Ruiz, and Judi Fusco

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 8 2021

The World’s Most Magnificent Historical Automatons

Automatons are ubiquitous. Some of the most magnificent works in the genre have survived in museums.

Herbert Bruderer

Architecture and Hardware

Mar 4 2021

Is the Pandemic Affecting Science and Engineering Undergraduate Students?

The importance of the students’ voice.

Ronit Lis-Hacohen and Orit Hazzan

Education

Feb 26 2021

NoSQL vs. SQL

Broadly, NoSQL has an absence of strict schemas for entities/attributes, while SQL rigidly relates/regulates the two.

Alex Williams

Computing Applications

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