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What Should be Done About Facebook?
The recent release of the Facebook papers by a whistleblower has confirmed that leaders at the company have long known about problems facilitated by their social...
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Patent Protection in Europe
Up to the second half of the 19th century —with the exception of the industrial power Great Britain—the protection of inventions was inadequate and strongly disputed...
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Reinforcing Computer Science Education
What do computer science students need to know to be successful in industry?
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Language Imitation Games and the Arrival of Broad and Shallow AI
On the impact of large language models.
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Computers Were Originally Humans
Until the middle of the 20th century, computers were in fact humans who performed calculations.
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Students are Interested in People, and Teachers Value Multiple Languages: ICER 2021 Pointers
A couple of excellent papers from the International Computing Education Research conference.
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Safe Space for Alt-Views
Not everyone who questions computational hegemony is appealing to magic, mysticism, or divinity.
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We Are Camille
Who is Camille Noûs, who has contributed to hundreds of papers on Google Scholar?
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Tech Meetups In A Pandemic
By 2019, I generally thought there wasn't much that could surprise me about organizing meetups. Then Covid-19 hit. I was so wrong.
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Protecting Enterprise Use of IoT
How to strengthen the security of the Internet of Things in organizations.
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The Role of Computer Science in Elite Higher Education: Seeing the Expert Blind Spot
CS has an important role in preparing elite scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.
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How Does One Multiply with Napier's Rods?
Napier's multiplication and division rods, deriving from the basic multiplication table, simplify calculations considerably.
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A Standard Plan for Modern Requirements
The ambitious systems that we develop today need a proper requirements structure. The plan defined here organizes requirements specification along four books, the...
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How Does One Calculate With A Circular Slide Rule?
The circular slide rule was widely used until the 1970s.
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10 Tips for Implementing Executable Exams
The focus is on executable exams for an Introduction to Computer Science course.
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Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Key Value
Of all non-relationals, the key-value store is by far the most popular due to its extreme simplicity.
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Inclusive Integration of Computing in School Districts: Two Essential Tradeoffs
When integrating computer science and computational thinking in a school district through inclusive learning pathways, school district leaders face challenging...
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Is Computing a Team Sport?
I take a peek at the history of computing to see if pioneering early developments were the results of team effort.
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