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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

Feb 17 2021

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.

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Profession

Feb 12 2021

How I Evaluate a College Computer Science Teaching Record

Teaching is a skill, and the best teachers use the best methods.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Feb 9 2021

Lessons From and For Online Teaching

The troika model for successful online teaching.

Bertrand Meyer

Education

Feb 8 2021

When Did the Digital Age Begin?

There is no clear answer.

Herbert Bruderer

Computing Profession

Feb 5 2021

The Skills Students Gain in Online Learning

The Corona Year as an opportunity for science and engineering students to practice 21st century skills.

Orit Hazzan

Computing Profession

Feb 1 2021

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.

Ryan Carrier

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jan 28 2021

NoSQL: A Beginner’s Guide

What exactly is NoSQL, and why should it matter in today's hyper-connected society?

Alex Williams

Computing Applications

Jan 27 2021

First-Year Research Sources

Identifying publications for first-year research requires some digging and some non-standard choices.

Robin K. Hill

Computing Profession

Jan 19 2021

Superb Historical Robots

The world's most magnificent historical robots.

Herbert Bruderer

Architecture and Hardware

Jan 11 2021

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.

Yegor Bugayenko

Computing Profession

Jan 11 2021

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.

Orit Hazzan, Ronit Lis-Hacohen, Bella Abrahams, and Mariana Waksman

Computing Profession

Jan 9 2021

What Liberal Arts and Sciences Students Need to Know About Computing

Defining goals for computing education beyone CS and Informatics offerings.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Jan 5 2021

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.

Jeremy Roschelle

Computing Applications

Dec 28 2020

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.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Dec 23 2020

Konrad Zuse’s Guestbook: a Treasure Trove

Computer scientist Konrad Zuse created the world's first programmable computer, the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3.

Herbert Bruderer

Computing Profession

Dec 21 2020

From Solar Sunrise to SolarWinds

The hack of critical departments of the U.S. government—and of many leading corporations—should come as no surprise.

John Arquilla

Computing Profession

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