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Closing the 'Trust Gap' in Contact Tracing/Exposure Notification Technology
The digitization of contact tracing presents an array of challenges.
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Can Research Universities Become Exponential?
We argue that exponential research and exponential teaching may exert mutual influence and foster each other, creating together the exponential research university...
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Restoring Industry Participation in Computer Science Conferences
When I complained at ISCA 2019 about a lack of papers on real industrial products, I was assigned to help fix the problem.
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Technology in the Time of Cataclysms
How is the development of technology, and its more basic cousin science, affected during such cataclysmic times?
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The Virus Analogy and Validation
The comparison between organic viruses and computer viruses is compelling. But why?
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Is A (Nearly) Zero-Cost Model Plausible for Science and Engineering Programs?
Is a skill-based, multi-level win-win, and (almost) zero-cost model for undergraduate science and engineering programs in a research university plausible?
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The COVID Catalyst
The coronavirus pandemic has once again demonstrated the great vulnerability of social and economic systems to microbes.
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Computational Thinking or Computational Teamwork?
Computational thinking can sound like "CS-minus." Is there a "CS-plus" that makes CS more attractive and approachable by all?
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Clean Code Isn't Enough; It Must Be Crystal Clear, Too
Writing clean code is a great start, but for programmers who really want to master their craft, you have to go further. You need to write clear code that other...
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Beware of Hurting Our Weakest Students when Moving Classes Online
Our weakest students should not be the ones bearing the greatest costs of moving classes online.
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Voting as Tallying in Public
Voting requires common acknowledgement. Can that be achieved in automation?
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Developing Computational Solutions With Humility: Recommending Morgan Ames' 'The Charisma Machine'
Morgan Ames' book highlights the missing HCI design process for the XO Laptop
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The Vote as a Declared Datum
A vote is a datum that sheds its original identity but persists.
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Leonardo da Vinci's Robot Lion
We are celebrating the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death with a major exhibition of the Renaissance painter's works.
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The Size of Computing Education Today, By The Numbers
How many students learn general-purpose programming today, compared to using other computing environments or learning other STEM subjects?
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The Shortest Possible Schedule Theorem: Yes, You Can Throw Money at Software Deadlines
As close as we have to a universal law of software engineering management.
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Who Manufactured the Mysterious Chinese Android?
In the 18th century, there were several famous makers of automatons in Europe; who created the Chinese musical clock automaton figure?
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A Design Perspective on Computational Thinking
Maybe we can just design away the need to teach computational thinking
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