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Twelve Tips For Department Heads from an NSF Perspective
Nuts and bolts advice for faculty and department heads on interacting with the National Science Foundation.
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Better GPS Software Through User Feedback
I appreciate my GPS software can tell me where I am, but it should get better at predicting where I will go.
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Celebrating Computer Science Education Week
CSEdWeek is a joint effort led by ACM with the cooperation and deep involvement of the Computer Science Teachers Association, the Computing Research Association...
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The End of Freedom on Internet?
Recent news on media reveals a tendency in several countries: Internet censorship and more.
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Security and Privacy Issues on Internet Social Networks
Last month most Internet users in Colombia were shocked with the case of a young girl who was murdered by a couple of young guys who used the girl's profile to...
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SC09 Reflections: The Need For Speed
SC09 (aka the “Supercomputing Conference”) was held during the week of November 16. The conference set an attendance record this year – roughly 10,000 attendees...
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What the Cloud Means For HCI
The CTO roundtable on cloud computing article in a past issue of CACM made me start thinking about what cloud computing really means for HCI and how people will...
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Georgia Again 'Counts' AP CS
Georgia again counts the Advanced Placement test in Computer Science towards high school grauation requirements. The story highlights the challenges of making...
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Games in Schools--Sugar-Coated Learning?
A discussion of the debate about using off-the-shelf, brain-training games in classrooms.
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Technology
A short review of some of the hidden social and environmental costs of technology.
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Internet Connectivity and Multimedia Content in Latin America
How Internet connectivity has affected multimedia content in Latin America.
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Extreme Agility at Facebook
Robert Johnson, director of engineering at Facebook was the last keynote at OOPSLA 2009. Robert’s talk: “Moving Fast at Scale - Lessons Learned at Facebook”, aimed...
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Consilience: The Path to Innovation
I believe solutions to many of the most challenging problems facing our society – medicine and health care, climate and the environment, economic security and privacy...
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Blogging Informatics Education Europe IV, Day Two
The second day of Informatics Education IV in Freiburg, Germany, focused on accreditation, expanding enrollments, student engagement, parellelism, and interdisciplinarity...
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Who Needs Massively Multi-Core?
Do consumers want massively multi-core? Or would they rather have lower power consumption and better memory bandwidth? Are we building what people want?
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Blogging Informatics Education Europe IV, Day One
Informatics Education Europe, a workshop sponsored by ACM, BCS, Intel, and Microsoft, is focusing on improving computing education across Europe.
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The 'No SQL' Discussion Has Nothing to Do With SQL
Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about "No SQL" databases. This blog post considers the performance argument about No SQL databases; a subsequent posting...
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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 :...
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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.
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