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Little's Law in the Exascale Era
When performance optimization, reliability requirements, and energy management are convolved with component costs, device physics, system software services and...
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Education as Engineering: The Benefits of Combining Education with Engineering
The relationship between education and engineering runs deep. Enhancing the relationship helps both.
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Is It Time to Change How Software Developers Are Hired?
Considerations of how conventional hiring practices prevent diversification of software development groups.
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Computer Science: Filling the Education Pipeline Gap
Computer Science Education Week 2012 Chair Ruthe Farmer talks about the importance of CS education and looks to you to pledge your support.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Academia . . .
Aria Haghighi, an award-winning natural language processing researcher, describes his trek from a tenure-track faculty job at UMass-Amherst to his decision to leave...
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The Problem Is That We're Just Too Darn Useful: CS Ed and State Public Policy
Is Computer Science a vocational skill or an academic subject? While many of us might say "yes" and "yes," public policy in the states is increasingly requiring...
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What Does 'Big Data' Mean? (Part 3)
The "big velocity" use case is examined in this third post in a series on big data.
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Little Miss Geek
Belinda Parmar's book Little Miss Geek highlights the gender imbalances within the tech industry, offering practical suggestions of how businesses can overcome...
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Exciting 'Big Data' Medical Applications
A quick look at two exciting medical applications of big data analysis.
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HPC, Big Data and the Peloponnesian War
We need a concord and strategic research investment plan that recognizes the shared importance of HPC and big data. Both warrant investments in basic research,...
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Ph.D.s from the Faculty's Perspective
One professor's reflections on succeeding in PhD programs.
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Teaching Programming To A Highly Motivated Beginner
I recount what I learned from spending nine months teaching computer programming to a person with no prior programming experience.
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Inside the Coder Dojo
Coder Dojo is an inspired movement to bring the joys of programming to young people everywhere. The Edinburgh (Scotland) coder dojo started last night in the Scottish...
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Priming, Assimilation Bias, Social Proof in Social Media
As the US election draws near, what is the role that social media play in this political process? How do social theories and psychological tendencies affect the...
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Why Isn't There More Computer Science in U.S. High Schools?
Seems like a simple question, but there are lots of factors that prevent US high school students from getting access to computer science.
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A Fundamental Duality of Software Engineering
What is the value of that function for x = 6?
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What Does 'Big Data' Mean? (Part 2)
In this second post on big data, I continue with a discussion of the use case of big volume-big analytics.
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Intermittent Net and Mobile/Cloud Development
Intermittent Net: The Importance of Distributed Thinking in Mobile/Cloud Application Development (and Usage)
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Daniel Spielman Wins MacArthur 'Genius' Award
Daniel Spielman, Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Applied Science at Yale University, is the latest computer scientist to receive a...
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