Why HCI Should Listen to Mothers
A call for the HCI community to spend some design effort on helping new mothers with the considerable physical and emotional challenges they face.
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Teaching Programming the Way It Works Outside the Classroom
Philip Guo offers programmers 'Opportunistic Programming' tips that typically are not shared in school.
Towards Empirical Answers to the Core Problems of Software Engineering
Can empirical research give us an answer to the big problems?
The global race is on to build ever-faster supercomputers, fueled by a combination of scientific and engineering needs to simulate phenomena with greater resolution and fidelity, continued advances in semiconductor capabilities, and economic and political competition.
Why Scientists and Engineers Must Learn Programming
Scientists and engineers who program can work 10 to 100 times faster and come up with more creative solutions than those who don't.
What’s Our Goal For a CS Degree, and How Do We Know We Got There?
A history of computing suggests that the computer science undergraduate degree is unnecessarily rigorous and may not be achieving the goals we have for it.
Reaching For Engelbart’s Vision of the Future
A meditation on Douglas Engelbart's impact on interactive computing.
ACM-W: One Way to Support Women in Computing!
An update on ACM-W activities in 2012-2013, and a look to the coming year.
So, Who Won The Battle Of The Brains?
And the winner of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is...
Students work together to solve complicated problems while competing at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
The evening before the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals.
The World’s Smartest Programmers Compete: ACM ICPC
An introductory post with background on the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Ph.D. Students Must Break Away From Undergraduate Mentality
Jason Hong considers how students working on their doctorates in computer science must adapt and evolve to succeed.
Education Removes Fear: Some Examples From CS Courses
One purpose of education is to remove fear; I present some examples from CS courses.
CFP: Whither the NSA Warrantless Internet Surveillance Program
Leading protagonists in the NSA’s warrantless internet surveillance debate discuss the program’s current status in light of recent revelations, focusing on the program’s legal basis and ongoing policy implications.
CFP: Homegrown Drones: Should the FAA Take on Regulating Hobbyists?
Panel discusses whether drone use by individuals should be regulated by the FAA.
CFP: Tor: Online Privacy and Anonymity
Next up I'm attending an interesting panel on the Tor Project for Online Anonymity. Tor is a tool that allows users all over the world to browse the Internet anonymously and securely. You can find out more about the Tor Project on its website here. Tor's goal is to hide who's communicating with whom and […]
CFP: FTC Commissioner Julie Brill
Commissioner Brill addresses four major challenges to Big Data and the Reclaim Your Name Initiative
CFP: A Conversation on ECPA Reform in Congress
Representatives Jason Chaffetz (R-UT, 3) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA,19) discuss the bills they have introduced and the importance of Congressional action on privacy reform.
Closing the Computing Labor Shortage with Computing in Schools
Getting more and better computing education into high schools is likely to have a big impact on computing careers.
CFP: Bridging the Divide: U.S. and E.U. Perspectives on Privacy
While we have heard from two representatives from the EU on privacy, no one from the US government will join us for the first panel.
CFP: Domain Seizures and Online Free Expression
The overwhelming secrecy surrounding seizures conducted under Operation in Our Sites is inexplicable.
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