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May 21 2013

Progress on Computing in Schools: 2 Countries, 2 States

Computing is making progress towards becoming a primary and secondary schools subject worldwide. I report on three personal meetings about activities in England and Denmark, and in South Carolina and Maryland.

Mark Guzdial

Education

May 16 2013

Computer Science: Catch Them Early

Informatics education for primary and secondary schools

Bertrand Meyer

Education

May 6 2013

CHI 2013 in Paris: A Personal Review of the Conference

In this short report I offer some reflections on the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (commonly known just as "CHI") that took place in Paris last week. The conference had 16 parallel tracks. Therefore, my review is necessarily partial and personal. I urge interested readers to look at the program in more detail, and to review the video "teasers" for the talks. All papers and abstracts are available in full, in the ACM Digital Library.

Elizabeth. F. Churchill

HCI

May 1 2013

Encouraging IT Usage in Future Healthcare; Quality in CS Education

Jeannette M. Wing considers how technology acts as a change agent for healthcare, while Mark Guzdial ponders ways to measure quality in computer science education.

Jeannette M. Wing and Mark Guzdial

Computing Applications

Apr 30 2013

The Role of Hypercard in Today’s World

HyperCard is an end-user programming tool from the 1990's. A new version that runs on most modern platforms raises the question of the role of end-user programming and the directions in modern programming languages.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Apr 24 2013

Simplifying Communication

How often have you picked up a scholarly journal in a discipline far removed from your expertise, only to be stymied and mystified by the disciplinary jargon? We cannot all be polymaths, but as writers about our research in computing, we can do more to lower the disciplinary drawbridges and invite readers into our intellectual castle.

Daniel Reed

Computing Profession

Apr 10 2013

Two Examples of HCI Research

What does HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) research involve? In this post, I present two examples of modern HCI research.

Philip Guo

HCI

Apr 4 2013

Apocalypse No! (Part 2)

Catastrophism and reliance on dubious studies have no place in serious discussions of software engineering.

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2013

Securing the Future of Computer Science; Reconsidering Analog Computing

Mark Guzdial sees hope in computer science education efforts in the U.K. Daniel Reed suggests we should not be so quick to discard analog computing.

Mark Guzdial and Daniel Reed

Computing Applications

Mar 25 2013

Nerdy Strutting: How to Put Women Off the Tech Industry

A reflection on how interaction patterns in the tech industry might be off putting to women even if they are not offensive or explicitly exclusive.

Judy Robertson

Computing Profession

Mar 25 2013

Innovation For Jobs

As technology continues to eliminate some jobs, how can we use innovation to create more?

Larry Fisher

Computing Profession

Mar 19 2013

How to Build on Code.org in Higher Education

The Code.org videos are terrific. What can we be doing in post-secondary education to support the vision?

Mark Guzdial

Education

Mar 14 2013

What Does ‘Big Data’ Mean (Part 4)?

The "big variety" use case is examined, in this fourth post in a series on big data.

Michael Stonebraker

Computing Applications

Mar 5 2013

Exascale Software: Just a Few Orders of Magnitude

Extraordinary parallelism, unprecedented data locality and adaptive resilience: these are daunting architecture, system software and application challenges for exascale computing.

Daniel Reed

Architecture and Hardware

Mar 1 2013

Passwords Getting Painful, Computing Still Blissful

Jason Hong wonders how anyone can follow the mounting complexity of password rules, and Daniel Reed ponders the attractions of computing.

Jason Hong and Daniel Reed

Computing Applications

Feb 22 2013

Apocalypse No! (Part 1)

The state of software is soooooo terrible!

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Applications

Feb 20 2013

Research Questions About MOOCs

Predictions abound on the Internet that MOOCs are about to destroy the university. (Call it, "the MOOCopalypse.") From a stance informed by computing education research, what else would we like to know about MOOCs before we replace our current higher-education system with a MOOC-based one?

Mark Guzdial

Education

Feb 4 2013

Doing It Right or Doing It Over?

Not everyone hits on America, who for India sets sail.

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Applications

Feb 1 2013

When Reviews Do More Than Sting

Bertrand Meyer wonders why malicious reviews run rampant in computer science.

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Applications

Jan 27 2013

The Waves of Publication

The traditional role of publication-as-process is gone. What remains?

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Profession

Jan 23 2013

Athena Award Nominations Closing Soon!

Don't miss out on the chance to nominate someone for an Athena Award from ACM-W.

Valerie Barr

Architecture and Hardware

Jan 22 2013

Software Engineering in the Venice of the North

ESEC-FSE 2013 (in Saint Petersburg,, 18-26 August) is the place to be for software engineering in 2013.

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Applications

Jan 15 2013

Who Earned First Computer Science Ph.D.?

Guest blogger Ralph L. London describes his efforts to provide a more accurate historical record of the first computer science Ph.D.s in the United States.

Ralph L. London

Computing Profession

Jan 10 2013

Conferences: Publication, Communication, Sanction

Conferences have three roles; these roles should be separated.

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Profession

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