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Computer Science Needs Education Schools. Desperately.
Improving high-school computer science in the United States is critical for the success and growth of computing education. To do that, we need teachers. To get...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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?
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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...
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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...
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Why Is Great Design So Hard (Part Two)?
Previously, I asked the question of why great design is so hard to integrate in organizations. In this article, I take a look at how Apple does design, and what...
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A Tale of A Serious Attempt At P≠NP
This is a discussion of the recent claimed proof that P≠NP by Vinay Deolalikar.
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On Software Updates and Version Changes
Since the beginning of software industry, developers have produced updates for their products on a regular basis. How do these updates affect the software itself...
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Remembering Internet Dogs
An iconic cartoon by Peter Steiner, which appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, captured the nature of the nascent Internet. It shows a dog seated at a computer,...
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Computer Science Left out of National Academies Report
The new draft framework from the National Research Council on "science, engineering, and technology" makes no mention of computer science.
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Why Is Great Design So Hard?
Why is good design so hard to accomplish for organizations? People are coming to the realization that design really matters, but it's not that they don't want to...
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In Vivo, In Vitro, In Silico
These “grand challenges” of systems biology encompass almost every aspect of modern computing, from numerical and symbolic methods through data management and analytics...
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Interface Design For New Mothers
Why is there so little research into interface design for new mothers? Interface designers—hear my cry! Here are some pointers for designing interfaces for mothers...
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2010 Edition of Campus Party Colombia
A quick look at this special event in Colombia at which people breathe, eat, and sweat technology.
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Hope vs. Fear: Privacy Challenges in Online Health Communities
The difficulty in creating privacy controls in online health communities represents the struggle between hope and fear.
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CFP: Intelligent Transportation Systems
One of the goals of this years Computers Freedom and Privacy conference is to ask the question, "Can we be 'smart' and private?" Wednesday's panel onIntellegent...
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CFP: Activism and Social Networking Advocating For Privacy
The Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP) continued Tuesday afternoon with a panel called Activism and Social Networking: Advocating for Privacy. Panelists...
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