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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

Sep 16 2009

Sorry, Turing

A happy ending to the petition which asked for an apology to Turing from the British government.

Judy Robertson

Computing Profession

Sep 10 2009

Frequent Releases Change Software Engineering

If you started deploying software much more frequently, how would it change your software development?

Greg Linden

Computing Applications

Sep 9 2009

CS Faculty Cause Inequality

A series of recent articles suggests that higher education in the United States is actually causing inequality, and that CS faculty play a role in that.

Mark Guzdial

Education

Sep 5 2009

Future World: Utopia?

A personal point of view about some technologies of the future world.

Carlos Brewer

Computing Profession

Drummond Ltd. Systems engineer Carlos A. Brewer R.

Sep 5 2009

The Benefits of Public Engagement

Working with public engagment projects can be satisfying, and has benefits for the researcher as well as the general public. This article describes my current Making Games in Schools project.

Judy Robertson

Computing Profession

Sep 4 2009

The World Is Small

Not that many years ago international travel meant one was largely inaccessible to colleagues at home. Today, when my plane lands, I will turn on my smart phone, connect to the local GSM network and download queued messages. Now if I could just catch up on my email deluge.

Daniel Reed

Computing Applications

Sep 1 2009

Saying Good-Bye to DBMSs, Designing Effective Interfaces

Michael Stonebraker discusses the problems with relational database management systems and possible solutions, and Jason Hong writes about interfaces and usable privacy and security.

Michael Stonebraker and Jason Hong

Computing Applications

Aug 30 2009

Update on Connectivity

Update on internet connectivity in Colombia

Carlos Brewer

Computing Profession

Aug 29 2009

Robotic Delight

Corporate showrooms offer floor after floor of lovable digital strangeness. It's easy to forget they're after your cash.

Computing Profession

Aug 24 2009

Perception Matters

The rapid pace of technology means that there are solutions that worked well, but are now abandoned -- not always for technical reasons. Perceptions about a technology matter.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Applications

Aug 22 2009

Atonement

A pointer to the petition to get an apology to Alan Turing from the British Government.

Judy Robertson

Computing Profession

Aug 21 2009

Venture Research

HCI research is moving out of the lab and onto the web. This new style of research -- Venture Research -- calls for a different set of skills and different metrics for success than traditional research.

Tessa Lau

HCI

Aug 21 2009

Breaking the Cycle

Today's practice of a deadline-driven approach to research is potentially bad for our field. Instead, our focus should be on the quality of the research we do. And our goal should be on advancing the frontiers of science and engineering.

Jeannette M. Wing

Education

Carnegie Mellon Professor Jeannette Wing

Aug 20 2009

Ubiquity

Technology and information are ominpresent in Tokyo, but nobody seems to notice; a look at the future of ultra-integrated high technology.

Michael Conover

Computing Profession

Aug 18 2009

Is C All There Is?

Increasingly, CS departments are moving to a programming language monoculture--it's C or C-derived languages throughout the curriculum. What are we losing out on?

Mark Guzdial

Computing Applications

Aug 17 2009

Is Advertising Inherently Deceptive?

People dislike current advertising because it is often irrelevant and annoying. It would be good to make advertising more helpful, relevant, and useful to people. Is that possible?

Greg Linden

Computing Profession

Aug 14 2009

What Does a Computer Scientist Do?

About a potentially radical redevelopment of the computing curriculum in Scotland

Judy Robertson

Education

Aug 13 2009

Impact, Not Indicators or Artifacts

It is worth remembering that our field grew from the confluence of mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, psychology, information theory and management and a host of other disciplines. The founders were radicals and iconoclasts, eschewing the extant culture of their disciplines because this new notion of computing was so pregnant with possibilities that could transform society and the nature of discovery.

Daniel Reed

Computing Profession

Aug 8 2009

How We Make Decisions About CS1

How do we decide what to put in our introductory courses, and for who, and using what language? My experience suggests that we make our decisions more on the basis of history, fads, and social pressure, than on what we believe is best for the students.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Aug 6 2009

Beyond Current Horizons

A brief description of a UK project which attempts to predict what society will be like in 30 years time.

Judy Robertson

Computing Profession

Aug 5 2009

Progress in Internet Networking in La

Access to the Internet has always been a problem in South America and especially in some areas where there is no infrastructure, but this is slowly changing. "Castilla la Nueva" Colombia

Carlos Brewer

Computing Profession

Aug 3 2009

Locomotive Complexity

Reflections on the the Japanese railyway system as a modern marvel of efficiency and infrastructure.

Michael Conover

Computing Profession

Aug 2 2009

As I Once Thunk

Is it time to capture the magic that attracted us into computer science in an essential course called Computing?

Ramana Rao

Computing Profession

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