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Nerdy Strutting: How to Put Women Off the Tech Industry
A reflection on how interaction patterns in the tech industry might be off putting to women even if they are not offensive or explicitly exclusive.
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Innovation For Jobs
As technology continues to eliminate some jobs, how can we use innovation to create more?
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How to Build on Code.org in Higher Education
The Code.org videos are terrific. What can we be doing in post-secondary education to support the vision?
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What Does 'Big Data' Mean (Part 4)?
The "big variety" use case is examined, in this fourth post in a series on big data.
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Exascale Software: Just a Few Orders of Magnitude
Extraordinary parallelism, unprecedented data locality and adaptive resilience: these are daunting architecture, system software and application challenges for...
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Research Questions About MOOCs
Predictions abound on the Internet that MOOCs are about to destroy the university. (Call it, "the MOOCopalypse.") From a stance informed by computing education...
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Doing It Right or Doing It Over?
Not everyone hits on America, who for India sets sail.
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The Waves of Publication
The traditional role of publication-as-process is gone. What remains?
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Athena Award Nominations Closing Soon!
Don't miss out on the chance to nominate someone for an Athena Award from ACM-W.
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Software Engineering in the Venice of the North
ESEC-FSE 2013 (in Saint Petersburg,, 18-26 August) is the place to be for software engineering in 2013.
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Who Earned First Computer Science Ph.D.?
Guest blogger Ralph L. London describes his efforts to provide a more accurate historical record of the first computer science Ph.D.s in the United States.
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Conferences: Publication, Communication, Sanction
Conferences have three roles; these roles should be separated.
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Teaching Real-World Programming
In this post, I describe a ubiquitous style of programming that, to my knowledge, has never been formally taught in the classroom.
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Little's Law in the Exascale Era
When performance optimization, reliability requirements, and energy management are convolved with component costs, device physics, system software services and...
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Education as Engineering: The Benefits of Combining Education with Engineering
The relationship between education and engineering runs deep. Enhancing the relationship helps both.
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Is It Time to Change How Software Developers Are Hired?
Considerations of how conventional hiring practices prevent diversification of software development groups.
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Computer Science: Filling the Education Pipeline Gap
Computer Science Education Week 2012 Chair Ruthe Farmer talks about the importance of CS education and looks to you to pledge your support.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Academia . . .
Aria Haghighi, an award-winning natural language processing researcher, describes his trek from a tenure-track faculty job at UMass-Amherst to his decision to leave...
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