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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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Are Data Miners Ready to Hang p the Hard Hat and Put on a Lab Coat?
We will find out this week at the annual ACM SIGKDD on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference in Chicago.
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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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Towards Empirical Answers to the Core Problems of Software Engineering
Can empirical research give us an answer to the big problems?
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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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What's Our Goal For a CS Degree, and How Do We Know We Got There?
A history of computing suggests that the computer science undergraduate degree is unnecessarily rigorous and may not be achieving the goals we have for it.
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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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So, Who Won The Battle Of The Brains?
And the winner of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is...
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The Heat Is On
Students work together to solve complicated problems while competing at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
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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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The World's Smartest Programmers Compete: ACM ICPC
An introductory post with background on the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
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Education Removes Fear: Some Examples From CS Courses
One purpose of education is to remove fear; I present some examples from CS courses.
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Closing the Computing Labor Shortage with Computing in Schools
Getting more and better computing education into high schools is likely to have a big impact on computing careers.
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CFP: Whither the NSA Warrantless Internet Surveillance Program
Leading protagonists in the NSA’s warrantless internet surveillance debate discuss the program’s current status in light of recent revelations, focusing on the...
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