Time to Assess National AI Policies
The Center for AI and Digital Policy has undertaken the first comparative review of national artificial intelligence policies.
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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.
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.
How Do You Calculate on the Abacus?
Considering the use of one of the most long-lived calculating devices.
Sometimes the digital turn forces us to designate things that aren't there.
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.
Determining CS Student Preferences During the Corona Semester
What does the Corona Semester reveal about computer science students’ preferences when learning computer science?
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.
Tracking Down a Seminal Work on Computer Construction – in Russian
A Russian edition of Rutishauser's standard work on computer construction.
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.
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.
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.
Agile Management of the Corona Crisis in the Start-Up Nation
Is there an efficient management solution for this crisis?
Protecting Computers and People From Viruses
Robin K. Hill considers why the comparison of organic viruses and computer viruses is so compelling.
Implications of Online Learning for Novice Students
The case of the Introduction to Computer Science course.
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).
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. Computer Chess Championship in 1970.
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.
Teaching CS Undergrads Online to Work With Others Effectively
Orit Hazzan on the challenges of taking a CS soft skills class online after teaching it in a classroom for a decade.
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