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Technology Transfer: A Contact Sport
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Technology Transfer: A Contact Sport

The success or failure of technology transfer depends on many factors. No single mechanism is guaranteed to succeed, though there are many mechanisms that are likely...

K-12 CS Education Town Hall @ Grace Hopper
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K-12 CS Education Town Hall @ Grace Hopper

The K-12 CS Education Town Hall at Grace Hopper brought together K-12 educators with people from industry, academia, and research.

Barbara Liskov Keynote Grace Hopper Conference
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Barbara Liskov Keynote Grace Hopper Conference

In her Grace Hopper keynote talk, Barbar Liskov reflected on her research journey and the work for which she was given the Turing Award.

Managing Scientific Data: Coping with a Multidisciplinary World Grace Hopper Talk
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Managing Scientific Data: Coping with a Multidisciplinary World Grace Hopper Talk

This is a report on a talk by Claudia Bauzer Medeiros on Managing Scientific Data.

Duy-Loan Le Keynote at Grace Hopper Conference
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Duy-Loan Le Keynote at Grace Hopper Conference

Duy-Loan Le gave an inspiring keynote talk to open the Grace Hopper Conference

Dancing with Hundreds of Technical Women at Grace Hopper
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Dancing with Hundreds of Technical Women at Grace Hopper

When I tell someone about the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, I start by explaining the dance parties. I tell them, "You wouldn't think that an...

Opening Session of Grace Hopper Conference 2010
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Opening Session of Grace Hopper Conference 2010

Some comments about the official opening of the Grace Hopper conference, including the new TechWomen Initiative and CS Ed Week.

Why Enterprises Are ­Uninterested in NoSQL
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Why Enterprises Are ­Uninterested in NoSQL

Here's my two cents worth on why an estimated 61% of enterprise users are either ignorant about or uninterested in NoSQL.

Grace Hopper Conference 2010
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Grace Hopper Conference 2010

On Wednesday I began GHC 2010 by attending a gathering of people who are planning regional celebrations of women in computing.

The Impact of the Grace Hopper Celebration
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The Impact of the Grace Hopper Celebration

This year's edition of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is officially underway, and you can almost taste the excitement. Last night I had the...

The Importance of Quest to Learn
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The Importance of Quest to Learn

Why we need more educational projects like Quest To Learn, a New York program in which children's learning is based around game playing and design.

Talking With PCAST
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Talking With PCAST

I told three stories at PCAST — The Google Story, Model Checking, and Machine Learning — as a way to illustrate the importance of sustained federal funding of basic...

Can the U.S. Afford Universities Focusing on Research Over Teaching?
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Can the U.S. Afford Universities Focusing on Research Over Teaching?

The American University system is increasingly turning toward research and away from teaching. The result is higher costs, and we can get quality education without...

Why Do the U­.K. and Sweden Take Computing Education Research More Seriously Than the ­U.S.?
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Why Do the U­.K. and Sweden Take Computing Education Research More Seriously Than the ­U.S.?

The UK and Sweden are establishing research centers on Computing Education. Where's the USA?

Tell Me a Story: Join the Effort to Collect Teacher Stories
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Tell Me a Story: Join the Effort to Collect Teacher Stories

Sally Fincher wants your stories about being a teacher, every month for a year, to figure out how to improve teaching and learning.

Old Geeks Never Die, They Just Get Grumpier
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Old Geeks Never Die, They Just Get Grumpier

With age comes wisdom, or so they say.  But when we geeks age, does it make us wiser or just grumpier?

Why Peer Review Matters
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Why Peer Review Matters

At the most recent Snowbird conference, there was a plenary session during which the panelists and audience discussed the peer review processes in computing research...

Simple HPC Wins
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Simple HPC Wins

You want to be the first person to design a successful, transistorized computer system, not the last person to design vacuum tube computer.  Any designer's challenge...

Mind Meld in Group Decision Making
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Mind Meld in Group Decision Making

Social computing remains a hot research topic, and basic research on understanding group decision making and conditions under which crowdsourcing can lead to advantages...

My Top 10 Assertions About Data Warehouses
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My Top 10 Assertions About Data Warehouses

Data warehouses, business intelligence, business analytics, and complex analytics are the subject of increasingly intense marketing wars, seemingly accelerated...
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