Wrapping up OOPSLA, Looking Forward For SPLASH
Like all good things, OOPSLA 09 concluded last Thursday. A great conference with many interesting presentations, I'm already looking forward for the next one : SPLASH in Reno, Nevada.
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Computer Science Curriculum, Deceptive Advertising
Each issue of Communications publishes excerpts from selected BLOG@CACM posts to the Communications Web site. In this issue, Ramana Rao writes about the evolution of computer science curriculum and Greg Linden reflects on ethics and advertising.
Innovation = Good Idea + Implementation + Measurement
We aspire to be innovative, but unless we are wiling to implement it and measure it its just another good idea.
AP CS No Longer Counts For High School Graduation in Georgia (for Now)
Georgia used to count AP CS as a fourth "science" class towards high school graduation. As of 1 October 2009, that is no longer true.
Developing Software For the Outer Space
Making good software is hard. Making software that has to work without defects on a different planet is extremely hard. Today Gerard Holzmann explained how NASA does it during his keynote at OOPSLA.
The Power of Abstraction–Barbara Liskov’s OOPSLA Keynote
Barbara Liskov is the Turing Award winner for 2008 for her pioneering work in programming languages. She was the keynote speaker in OOPSLA 2009 and talked about the power of abstraction. An exceptional keynote indeed.
The Rise of Empirical Software Engineering (II): What We Are Still Missing
One obstacle is hampering the progress of empirical software engineering: we are still missing a culture of reproducibility
OOPSLA 2009 workshops started yesterday (Sunday Oct 25th) and featured two workshops on Cloud Computing. The presence of a diverse audience led to many interesting discussions and healthy debates on the future of Cloud computing.
Cray and Fernbach Award Winners
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
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.
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
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.
Economic Crisis and Computer Science
A personal view of the role of computer science in economic crisis.
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?
Introductory Computer Science Lessons–Take Heart!
A discussion of Mark Guzdial's post about why our approach to teaching novice CS students is wrong.
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
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.
Tessa reports on highlights from the recent Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Final Thoughts About Grace Hopper Conference
Just a few final thoughts and pointers to projects and resources.
Student Research Competition at Grace Hopper
Highlights of the top six posters/presentations at the Student Research Competition
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.
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Session: Part 1
Grace Hopper Conference--some highlights on who attends and what it's like.
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