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NCWIT at Grace Hopper: Recruiting and Retaining Women
NCWIT research scientists Lecia Barker and Joanne Cohoon spoke about recruitment and retention of women in computer science at this year's Grace Hopper Celebration...
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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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K-12 CS Education Town Hall @ Grace Hopper
The K-12 CS Education Town Hall at Grace Hopper brought together K-12 educators with people from industry, academia, and research.
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Barbara Liskov Keynote Grace Hopper Conference
In her Grace Hopper keynote talk, Barbar Liskov reflected on her research journey and the work for which she was given the Turing Award.
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Managing Scientific Data: Coping with a Multidisciplinary World Grace Hopper Talk
This is a report on a talk by Claudia Bauzer Medeiros on Managing Scientific Data.
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Duy-Loan Le Keynote at Grace Hopper Conference
Duy-Loan Le gave an inspiring keynote talk to open the Grace Hopper Conference
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Dancing with Hundreds of Technical Women at Grace Hopper
When I tell someone about the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, I start by explaining the dance parties. I tell them, "You wouldn't think that an...
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Opening Session of Grace Hopper Conference 2010
Some comments about the official opening of the Grace Hopper conference, including the new TechWomen Initiative and CS Ed Week.
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Why Enterprises Are Uninterested in NoSQL
Here's my two cents worth on why an estimated 61% of enterprise users are either ignorant about or uninterested in NoSQL.
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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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The Impact of the Grace Hopper Celebration
This year's edition of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is officially underway, and you can almost taste the excitement. Last night I had the...
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The Importance of Quest to Learn
Why we need more educational projects like Quest To Learn, a New York program in which children's learning is based around game playing and design.
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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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Can the U.S. Afford Universities Focusing on Research Over Teaching?
The American University system is increasingly turning toward research and away from teaching. The result is higher costs, and we can get quality education without...
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Why Do the U.K. and Sweden Take Computing Education Research More Seriously Than the U.S.?
The UK and Sweden are establishing research centers on Computing Education. Where's the USA?
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Tell Me a Story: Join the Effort to Collect Teacher Stories
Sally Fincher wants your stories about being a teacher, every month for a year, to figure out how to improve teaching and learning.
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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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Simple HPC Wins
You want to be the first person to design a successful, transistorized computer system, not the last person to design vacuum tube computer. Any designer's challenge...
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