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Clay Shirky: Doing Work, or Doing Work?
In a keynote delivered to this year's ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), author and academic Clay Shirky captured the distinction between...
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Paucity to Plethora: Jevons Paradox
I suspect much of computing is still socially conditioned by its roots in computational paucity to recognize fully the true opportunity afforded by computational...
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Beginning to Rethink CS Education at NSF
NSF overalls key computer science education programs.
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The Impact of Open Source on Computing Education
Open source provides a large collection of valuable software to the world. There may be downsides to open source for computing education, especially for the goal...
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Computer Science Student Recruitment Tips
Some thoughts on effective student recruitment strategies for boosting numbers to CS degrees.
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Third Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)
Report on Third Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010).
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School Pupils' Attitudes to Programming: 'What's That?'
Very short article about school pupils' lack of knowledge about programming.
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Why Do Software Developers Tolerate 'Crunch Time'?
Given the well known increased risk of burnout for an extended "Crunch Time," why do developers put up with it?
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Lessons Learned, or Not
Many of the techniques for better programming have been there for a long time.
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Are There Too Many IT Jobs or Too Many IT Workers?
The latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report is out, and it says that computing is booming! So why are there so many IT workers complaining about being laid...
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Showcasing European Computer Science
Retrospective on the 2009 European Computer Science Summit and the launch of ACM Europe
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Tweets, Second Life, Visualisation: Student Ingenuity Will Never Cease
Some thoughts on using Second Life as a platform for first year CS teaching. Also raises the issue of setting appropriate challenge for brightest students.
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The DARPA Network Challenge and the Design of Social Participation Systems
What have we learned from the DARPA Network Challenge and the design of social participation systems? The principal concern for designers of social participation...
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The Ghosts of Holiday Shopping: Past, Present and Future
In many parts of the western world, the frenzy of holiday shopping has reached its crescendo. With apologies to Charles Dickens, it is instructive to consider...
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Inside an Effective Computer Science Classroom
A discussion of Guy Claxton's "What's the Point of School" book and how it relates to CS.
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