Our behaviors often seem to mimic the procedures that we induce in computers. What questions does that raise?
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The Birthplace of Artificial Intelligence?
Was the 1951 Paris conference "Les machines à calculer et la pensée humaine" the birthplace of Artificial Intelligence?
Opportunities For Women, Minorities in Information Retrieval
Mei Kobayashi describes activities to support diversity and inclusion at the annual meeting of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval in Tokyo this summer.
The Binary System Was Created Long Before Leibniz
There are reports of much older number systems using only two symbols that have been developed mainly in Asia.
Student Liaison Program Debuts at SIGIR 2017
The SIGIR Student Liaison Program supports an environment in which all students thrive.
Manipulating Word Representations, and Preparing Students For Coding Jobs?
Robin K. Hill mulls an aspect of natural language processing research, while Mark Guzdial ponders why coding is taught in public schools.
How Much CS Ed Will $1.3B Buy You? Not Enough to Reach Every U.S. School, Nor Every Child
The White House promises $200M/year for CS Ed, and the Tech industry promises $300M over 5 years. What can we get for that?
The Rise of Strategic Cyberwar?
Cyberwar is not simply a lineal descendant of strategic air power; rather, it is the next face of battle.
Finding the World’s Smallest Mechanical Parallel Calculator
Discovery of a 12-fold Curta in Britain.
It’s Not the ‘Why’ Chromosome, It’s the ‘How’
Women do like the raw technical aspects of computer science.
Assuring Software Quality By Preventing Neglect
Robin K. Hill suggests software neglect is a failure of the coder to pay enough attention and take enough trouble to ensure software quality.
Measuring Student Self-Efficacy and Learning Trajectories For K-5 CS: ICER 2017 Trip Report
ICER 2017 features a new test of student belief and new theory about K-5 CS learning.
This article summarizes the keynotes in the main session and from the Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval.
SIGIR 2017: Diversity and Inclusion
This article describes activities to support diversity and inclusion at SIGIR 2017 in Tokyo, Japan.
SIGIR 2017 Day 1: Neural Networks For IR
Blog on a one-day tutorial on Neural Networks at SIGIR 2017.
CSTA: Computer Science Education, Equity, and the Future Workforce
The Big IDEA and the PD Pipeline are two examples of industry-changing initiatives launched by the Computer Science Teachers Association over the past two years.
I summarize my first three years of research as an assistant professor on studying and building tools to support people who are learning computer programming.
ACM SIGIR 2017 Tokyo, Blog #1: Yokoso!
This is the first of a series of blogs on ACM SIGIR 2017 in Tokyo, Japan.
How Adults Ages 60+ Are Learning to Code
Philip Guo discusses his project studying older adults that have chosen to learn computer programming.
Keith Abney of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences group of California Polytechnic State University surveys the moral landscape of cyberwar.
Coding in Schools as New Vocationalism: Larry Cuban on What Schools Are For
What are schools for, and is coding a necessary part of that?
‘Generation CS’ Drives Growth in Enrollments
Undergraduates who understand the importance of computer science have been expanding the CS student cohort for more than a decade.
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