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Nov 24 2020

Why Great Programmers Pull Back the Curtain While Programming

Want to be a great programmer? If so, you have to pull back the curtain and learn how software really works. A deeper understanding helps programmers further their skills and knowledge. And that can pay off for years to come.

Yegor Bugayenko

Computing Applications

Nov 24 2020

Time to Assess National AI Policies

The Center for AI and Digital Policy has undertaken the first comparative review of national artificial intelligence policies.

Marc Rotenberg

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Nov 24 2020

Is Computer Science More or Less Suitable for Distance Learning?

How undergraduate computer science students perceive the discipline based on their distance learning experience during the 2020 Spring semester – the Corona Semester.

Orit Hazzan

Education

Nov 18 2020

How Objective is Peer Review?

The ESA Experiment.

Hannah Bast

Computing Profession

Nov 16 2020

Why Focus on Technologies for Human Learning?

By choosing human learning as a topic area, computer scientists can contribute to major societal challenges, win grants in additional programs, and tackle new computer science challenges. Three classes of challenges are described.

Jeremy Roschelle

Computing Profession

Nov 12 2020

How Do You Calculate on the Abacus?

Considering the use of one of the most long-lived calculating devices.

Herbert Bruderer

Computing Profession

Nov 7 2020

Deadlines of the Digital Turn

Sometimes the digital turn forces us to designate things that aren't there.

Robin K. Hill

Computing Profession

Nov 5 2020

Here’s Why Resentment is the Key to Happiness

Do you find happiness to be fleeting? That shiny new car or big job promotion makes you happy for a few weeks but quickly turns into the same old same old? Maybe resentment is the key to happiness... Let me explain why.

Yegor Bugayenko

Computing Applications

Nov 2 2020

Determining CS Student Preferences During the Corona Semester

What does the Corona Semester reveal about computer science students’ preferences when learning computer science?

Orit Hazzan

Education

Nov 1 2020

Bringing Industry Back to Conferences, and Paying for Results

David Patterson wants to boost industry submissions to conferences, while Yegor Bugayenko suggests productivity should govern coders' pay when they work from home.

David Patterson and Yegor Bugayenko

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Oct 23 2020

Tracking Down a Seminal Work on Computer Construction – in Russian

A Russian edition of Rutishauser's standard work on computer construction.

Herbert Bruderer

Architecture and Hardware

Oct 18 2020

Why I Don’t Recommend CSRankings.org: Know the Values You are Ranking On

Just because a ranking is computable doesn't mean that it's right.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Oct 16 2020

Measuring Up: How to Properly Measure Your Programmers

To measure or to not measure, that is the question. Ask programmers and many will tell you that measurement is a fool’s folly. Measurement undermines the team spirit, or it reduces dynamic solutions into simplified numbers that can never reflect the true complexity of the project. On the other hand, without measurement, project managers will struggle to stay on top of a project.

Yegor Bugayenko

Computing Profession

Oct 16 2020

The Pros and Cons of Online Lab Classes for Computer Science – 2020 Pandemic Edition

Contrary to expectations, online lab classes during our current pandemic may actually have some benefits over their in-person counterparts.

Philip Guo

Education

Oct 15 2020

What Everyone Knows and What No One Knows

Who cares about logic?

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Applications

Oct 13 2020

Agile Management of the Corona Crisis in the Start-Up Nation

Is there an efficient management solution for this crisis?

Orit Hazzan

Computing Profession

Oct 1 2020

Protecting Computers and People From Viruses

Robin K. Hill considers why the comparison of organic viruses and computer viruses is so compelling.

Robin K. Hill

Computing Profession

Sep 21 2020

Implications of Online Learning for Novice Students

The case of the Introduction to Computer Science course.

Yael Erez and Orit Hazzan

Education

Sep 21 2020

Discovery: User Manual of the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World

A rare find: the user manual of the oldest surviving computer in the world, the Zuse Z4 relay machine (1945).

Herbert Bruderer

Architecture and Hardware

Sep 18 2020

The Laughing is Over

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. Computer Chess Championship in 1970.

Monroe Newborn

Computing Applications

Sep 13 2020

Trolleyspotting

The Trolley Problem is not for solving, but for exploring.

Robin K. Hill

Education

Sep 12 2020

Students Need to Know What Success in Computing Looks Like, Starting from Realistic Expectations

Intro CS students sometimes think professional programmers are super-human, which makes it hard to live up to those expectations.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Sep 6 2020

Things To Do To An Algorithm

What happens when people's fate hangs on machine learning?

Bertrand Meyer

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Sep 1 2020

Can Machine Learning Algorithms Replace Exams?

Radical thoughts on exams in times of COVID-19.

Orit Hazzan and Koby Mike

Education

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