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Mar 1 2015

Advice on Teaching CS, and the Learnability of Programming Languages

Valerie Barr considers how attitude can impact teacher effectiveness, while Mark Guzdial suggests the ultimate focus in teaching programming languages should be on usability.

Valerie Barr and Mark Guzdial

Computing Applications

Feb 27 2015

What Are The Best STEM Careers in 2015?

According to U.S. News & World Report: Money, the top four STEM careers (and nine of the top 20) are all in computing.

Joel C. Adams

Computing Profession

Feb 22 2015

Computing Education Must Go Beyond Intuition: The Need For Evidence-Based Practice

Computing educators' practice would dramatically improve if we drew on evidence, rather than intuition.

Mark Guzdial

Education

Feb 16 2015

Feature-Based Development: The Lasagne and the Linguini

Agile authors tell us that we can build systems one feature at a time. Can we?

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Applications

Feb 10 2015

What Is Your Research Culture? Part 3: The Web of Science

Experienced institutions know that the Web of Science is inapplicable to the evaluation of computer science research and researchers. It is time that others learned too.

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Applications

Feb 5 2015

Why the Pass at the End of Super Bowl XLIX Was the Right Call

If we explore the logic behind the Seattle coaching decision near the end of Superbowl XLIX with computational thinking, we'll see it was the correct decision.

Joel C. Adams

Computing Applications

Feb 2 2015

Socializing with Robots at Ginza

Modern social robots are making their debut in our daily lives.

Mei Kobayashi

Architecture and Hardware

Feb 1 2015

Launching a New Girls Who Code Chapter

What is involved in starting a new Girls Who Code club?

Joel Adams

Computing Profession

Feb 1 2015

What’s the Best Way to Teach Computer Science to Beginners?

Mark Guzdial questions the practice of teaching programming to new CS students by having them practice programming largely on their own.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Applications

Jan 19 2015

Rising Enrollment Might Capsize Retention and Diversity Efforts

Rapid increase of enrollment in CS classes in the US might undermine efforts to improve diversity.

Mark Guzdial

Education

Jan 8 2015

The NIPS Experiment

In the NIPS experiment, 10% of papers submitted to the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation went through its review process twice, with results compared.

John Langford

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jan 4 2015

Some Thoughts For Computer Science Teaching Assistants (and Faculty)

Some musings on practices that can help create a positive educational environment for all students in a class.

Valerie Barr

Education

Jan 1 2015

Courtesy of a SIGCSE 2014 BOF, here are some SF books containing themes of special interest to computer scientists.

Joel Adams

Architecture and Hardware

Jan 1 2015

A Valuable Lesson, and Whither Hadoop?

Valerie Barr considers outcomes from the Grace Hopper Celebration, while Michael Stonebraker ponders the past, present, and possible future of the "Hadoop stack."

Valerie Barr and Michael Stonebraker

Computing Applications

Dec 22 2014

Why the ‘Data Lake’ Is Really A ‘Data Swamp’

The notion of putting all one's data into a "data lake" to encourage employees to run analytics has a serious flaw.

Michael Stonebraker

Computing Applications

Dec 20 2014

The Role of Tech Firms in Computing Education

Computing education can't be about jobs. It has to be about schools to reach everyone.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Dec 11 2014

Yet Another Major Data Breach, But Will This Time Be Any Different?

Why is our community having such an anemic response to all of these major data breaches? What can we do differently? What should we be doing differently?

Jason Hong

Computing Profession

Dec 1 2014

HPC: Computational Performance vs. Human Productivity

One of the themes at SC14 was the tension between developing programs that run fast vs. the time required by humans to develop and maintain fast-running programs.

Joel C. Adams

Computing Applications

Dec 1 2014

Women in STEM, Women in Computer Science: We’re Looking At It Incorrectly

A rethinking of how best to analyze data on women's undergraduate degrees in STEM disciplines.

Valerie Barr

Education

Dec 1 2014

Meeting Student and Teacher Needs in Computing Education

Mark Guzdial reports on the 2014 meeting of the ACM Education Council, where updates from its global representatives led to action plans.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Applications

Nov 26 2014

Envisioning Your Ideal Live-In Robot at Miraikan

Miraikan in Tokyo showcases Japanese technologies and challenges visitors to think how humans can improve their quality of life while mitigating risks.

Mei Kobayashi

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Nov 21 2014

Doing Our Part to Show Why HPC Matters

As managers and practitioners in the HPC community part of our responsibility is to make sure that everyone we come into professional contact with appreciates how broadly HPC touches our daily lives. From the products we consume, to the financial services we employ and the medical treatment we receive, HPC matters

Dona Crawford

Computing Profession

Nov 20 2014

Locality, Locality, Locality: A Note from SC14

Steadily growing chips, systems, and application parallelism are driving the movement of data across larger distances in systems, and data locality is becoming one of the major topics in efficient parallel computing. Locality has emerged as a significant theme at SC14, and research in this area is growing as researchers struggle to effectively manage this growing challenge to HPC application performance.

Torsten Hoefler

Systems and Networking

Nov 20 2014

HHP For Undergraduates

At SC14, graduate students mentor undergraduates interested in pursuing advanced degrees in fields related to high performance computing.

Jeffrey Hollingsworth

Computing Applications

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