Closing the ‘Trust Gap’ in Contact Tracing/Exposure Notification Technology
The digitization of contact tracing presents an array of challenges.
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Can Research Universities Become Exponential?
We argue that exponential research and exponential teaching may exert mutual influence and foster each other, creating together the exponential research university.
3 Proposals to Change How We Teach Computing In Order to Reduce Inequality
Computer Science education is inequitable. The least-prepared students are going to be hurt the most in online teaching. We have to make change now.
How WWII Was Won, and Why CS Students Feel Unappreciated
John Arquilla considers how code-breaking helped end a war, while Jeremy Roschelle ponders the use of music in data science education.
Towards Equity in K-12 Computer Science Education: Consistency, Cumulativity and Competencies
To address structural barriers in Computer Science education, school districts are now looking beyond the need for specific courses or tools. They are developing K-12 pathways that are consistent, cumultative and competency-based.
The Software that Led to the Lockdown
One of the key drivers for the decision to lockdown the U.K. in late March 2020 was a computational epidemiological model developed at Imperial College, London.
Restoring Industry Participation in Computer Science Conferences
When I complained at ISCA 2019 about a lack of papers on real industrial products, I was assigned to help fix the problem.
Ten Challenges of Data Science Education
We highlight 10 challenges of data science education, clustered into three categories: (a) Discipline, (b) Skills, and (c) Environment.
Computing Ethics and Teaching It
Ethics can and should be presented to computer science students in appropriate ways.
Transitioning to Distance Learning and Virtual Conferencing
John Arquilla considers responses to the Coronavirus pandemic, while Mark Guzdial ponders the impacts of competitive enrollment.
‘Underrepresented Minority’ Considered Harmful, Racist Language
The foundation of any collective action, of any community, is language. It influences how we feel, react, and understand.
The Advantages of Teaching Soft Skills to CS Undergrads Online
On the added value of teaching an online soft skills course to undergrad computer science students.
Technology in the Time of Cataclysms
How is the development of technology, and its more basic cousin science, affected during such cataclysmic times?
Automatic Translators are Not Really Capable of Learning
One does not get the impression the Google Translate and DeepL translation programs are self-learning and have made real progress.
CS Teachers, It’s (Past) Time To Learn About Race
We need to send the message that we are willing to change CS education in order to address historic and systemic inequities.
Detecting/Preventing Infections, and Moving Instruction Online
Terrence DeFranco suggests the Internet of Things could be keeping us safer, and Jeremy Roschelle airs issues related to online instruction.
The Virus Analogy and Validation
The comparison between organic viruses and computer viruses is compelling. But why?
The Remote Revolution Has to be Driven by Output, Not Salaries
The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic has thrown us all for a loop and forced countless companies to shutter their offices, warehouses, and everything else. Working remotely works best when you pay people for results, not by the hour. Many companies are still paying their employees salaries and they will find out just how hard it is to motivate an off-site employee when they’re paid the same no matter their output.
Is A (Nearly) Zero-Cost Model Plausible for Science and Engineering Programs?
Is a skill-based, multi-level win-win, and (almost) zero-cost model for undergraduate science and engineering programs in a research university plausible?
The World’s Largest Commercial Cylindrical Slide Rule has a Scale Length of 24m
The world's largest mass-produced cylindrical slide rules come from Loga-Calculator AG in Zurich/Uster, Switzerland.
Best paper awardee at SIGCSE 2020 on the impacts on first-year students of competitive enrollment.
Teaching CS Humbly, and Watching the AI Revolution
Mark Guzdial on a book that changed his thinking about teaching computer science, and Jiajie Zhang on the AI Revolution.
The coronavirus pandemic has once again demonstrated the great vulnerability of social and economic systems to microbes.
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