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Oct 25 2009

This year, I have the honor and privilege to chair the selection committee for the Seymour Cray and Sidney Fernbach awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to high-performance computing, in honor of two early leaders of our field

Daniel Reed

Architecture and Hardware

Oct 22 2009

Impact of the Social Web on Computing Research

Scientists from diverse fields are feeling the impact of Social Web systems and are publishing research papers that characterize, model, prototype, and evaluate such systems. Researchers are seeing a surge of new research on Web2.0 technologies distributed in a wide variety of disciplines and associated conferences.

Ed H. Chi

Computing Applications

Oct 21 2009

A Week For Computer Science Education

Computer Science Education Week, which is the week of December 7 , is a wonderful platform to highlight the importance of computing to society and why we need to strengthen CS education--particularly at the K-12 level

Cameron Wilson

Education

Oct 19 2009

The Rise of Empirical Software Engineering (I): The Good News

Empirical software engineering papers, at places like the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), used to be terrible. There were exceptions, of course, but the scene has greatly improved.

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Applications

Oct 14 2009

Economic Crisis and Computer Science

A personal view of the role of computer science in economic crisis.

Carlos Brewer

Computing Applications

Drummond Ltd. Systems engineer Carlos A. Brewer R.

Oct 14 2009

Collaborating Across Boundaries

In a global world, collaboration and communicating with colleagues in different geographical locations is becoming critically important. What kinds of tools can we build to address some of these challenges?

Tessa Lau

HCI

Oct 13 2009

Introductory Computer Science Lessons–Take Heart!

A discussion of Mark Guzdial's post about why our approach to teaching novice CS students is wrong.

Judy Robertson

Education

Oct 8 2009

How We Teach Introductory Computer Science Is Wrong

Research in educational psychology in the last 20 years calls into question our most common teaching methods in introductory courses: Teaching programming by having students program

Mark Guzdial

Education

Oct 5 2009

Collective Intelligence: a Fad or Real Research?

A recent trend in HCI research is the extension of the long time goal of augmenting human intelligence to "augmenting social intelligence." That is, enabling not just a single person to find and make sense of information, but enabling a group of people (whether explicitly or implicitly organized) to make sense of information.

Ed H. Chi

Data and Information

Oct 4 2009

Grace Hopper Highlights

Tessa reports on highlights from the recent Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

Tessa Lau

Computing Profession

Oct 3 2009

Grace Hopper Keynote 2: Fran Berman

Fran Berman's keynote address at the Grace Hopper Conference

Valerie Barr

Computing Applications

Oct 3 2009

Final Thoughts About Grace Hopper Conference

Just a few final thoughts and pointers to projects and resources.

Valerie Barr

Computing Profession

Oct 2 2009

Student Research Competition at Grace Hopper

Highlights of the top six posters/presentations at the Student Research Competition

Valerie Barr

Architecture and Hardware

Oct 2 2009

Grace Hopper Keynote 1: Megan Smith

Megan Smith keynote at Grace Hopper

Valerie Barr

Computing Applications

Oct 2 2009

Smartphones and Health Systems Research at Intel Seattle

The ubiquity of smartphones and their increasing ability to collect and transmit information will lead the way for the next advances in health monitoring and improvement.

Ruben Ortega

Computing Applications

Oct 2 2009

Grace Hopper Conference Opening Session: Part 1

Grace Hopper Conference--some highlights on who attends and what it's like.

Valerie Barr

Computing Profession

Oct 1 2009

Opening Day of Grace Hopper Conference

A panoply of posters welcome attendees to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

Valerie Barr

Computing Profession

Oct 1 2009

The Netflix Prize, Computer Science Outreach, and Japanese Mobile Phones

The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish excerpts from selected posts. Greg Linden writes about machine learning and the Netflix Prize, Judy Robertson offers suggestions about getting teenagers interested in computer science, and Michael Conover discusses mobile phone usage and quick response codes in Japan.

Greg Linden, Michael Conover, and Judy Robertson

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Sep 30 2009

Designing Effective Warnings

Computer security warnings are something we all see everyday, but many people find them annoying and ignore them. What are better ways of designing warnings?

Jason Hong

HCI

Sep 28 2009

CS Education in the States

Decisions about whether there is computer science in the classroom are largely state-based. The most recent example is the State of Kansas, which is moving to remove computing courses from the content students are required to take. This could undercut computer science education. ACM and the Computer Science Teachers Association recommend a different approach asking that the State include computer science in students' core requirements.

Cameron Wilson

Education

Sep 27 2009

Donation of Technological Goods and its Impact on a Society

What are the possible consequences of donation of technological goods on the society

Carlos Brewer

Computing Profession

Sep 25 2009

Smart Grids: Getting Personal

How many electronic devices do you own? It is tempting to answer, “Just a handful,” but the truth is much more nuanced. Here’s a simple experiment that will (quite literally) illuminate the truth. Some evening, after darkness has fallen, turn off all the lights in your house, walk from room to room and count the number of lighted power indicators, blinking LEDs and glowing screens. I suspect you will be surprised.

Daniel Reed

Computing Applications

Sep 22 2009

An Einstein-Rosen Bridge

Science acts as a bridge between societies that trasncends culture, and it may be our best hope for finding a common thread in a globalized future.

Michael Conover

Computing Profession

Sep 22 2009

Why Doesn’t the U.S. Fund Computing Education Research?

How do we bootstrap research in computing education? Existing education research programs only fund the best research, with the best measurement instruments and theories. What do you do when those don't exist yet?

Mark Guzdial

Education

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