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A Summit on Computing Education in South Carolina
A summit of legislators, business leaders, officials from the Department of Education, and teachers convenes in South Carolina to advance computing education in...
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For These Companies, It All Started With the Decision to Adopt
SC13 is featuring sixteen companies on the exhibit floor that have adopted HPC as part of their core business and, as a result, have transformed their ability to...
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HPC Every Day, Everywhere
This Saturday the world's largest, and most influential, conference on high performance computing opens in Denver. Over the next week new advances in supercomputing...
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Computing Does Not Support Its Infrastructure
All large, multinational companies that depend on their intellectual prowess are able to avoid most taxation. Two factors enable the trend: first intellectual property...
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Results From the First-Year Course MOOCs: Not There Yet
The empirical results of first-year MOOCs are in. We're not there yet in terms of retention, learning, or access.
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Heidelberg Laureate Forum: Research At the Interface Between Disciplines
The importance of interdisciplinary work, particularly in applying mathematics and computer science to biology, was a topic emphasized throughout the Heidelberg...
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Trip Report on Dagstuhl Seminar on Live Coding
Live coding is programming performance with generates music for an audience, often in a collaborative setting. It's a jam session on laptops with rich research...
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The First Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2013
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2013 is an annual event where 200 young researchers get to meet with and learn from 40 Turing Award, Fields Medal, Abel Prize...
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Heidelberg Laureate Forum: Who Invented the Computer?
Comments after the first lecture by Prof. Raj Reddy at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
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A Stable Future For Computing Education Requires Collaboration Beyond CS
If you were a superintendent of a big city school district, would you require every school in your district to teach computer science without reliable production...
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Turing's 1936 Paper and the First Dutch Computers
The following question has polarized the computer-science community: Did Alan Turing's 1936 paper 'On Computable Numbers' influence the early history of computer...
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Why HCI Should Listen to Mothers
A call for the HCI community to spend some design effort on helping new mothers with the considerable physical and emotional challenges they face.
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Leaping the Exascale Chasm
The global race is on to build ever-faster supercomputers, fueled by a combination of scientific and engineering needs to simulate phenomena with greater resolution...
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Why Scientists and Engineers Must Learn Programming
Scientists and engineers who program can work 10 to 100 times faster and come up with more creative solutions than those who don't.
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Reaching For Engelbart's Vision of the Future
A meditation on Douglas Engelbart's impact on interactive computing.
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ACM-W: One Way to Support Women in Computing!
An update on ACM-W activities in 2012-2013, and a look to the coming year.
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The Lull Before the Storm
The evening before the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals.
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CFP: Homegrown Drones: Should the FAA Take on Regulating Hobbyists?
Panel discusses whether drone use by individuals should be regulated by the FAA.
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