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Grace Hopper Conference Opening Session: Part 1
Grace Hopper Conference--some highlights on who attends and what it's like.
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Opening Day of Grace Hopper Conference
A panoply of posters welcome attendees to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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Designing Effective Warnings
Computer security warnings are something we all see everyday, but many people find them annoying and ignore them. What are better ways of designing warnings?
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CS Education in the States
Decisions about whether there is computer science in the classroom are largely state-based. The most recent example is the State of Kansas, which is moving to remove...
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Donation of Technological Goods and its Impact on a Society
What are the possible consequences of donation of technological goods on the society
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Smart Grids: Getting Personal
How many electronic devices do you own? It is tempting to answer, “Just a handful,” but the truth is much more nuanced. Here’s a simple experiment that will (quite...
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An Einstein-Rosen Bridge
Science acts as a bridge between societies that trasncends culture, and it may be our best hope for finding a common thread in a globalized future.
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Why Doesn't the U.S. Fund Computing Education Research?
How do we bootstrap research in computing education? Existing education research programs only fund the best research, with the best measurement instruments and...
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Sorry, Turing
A happy ending to the petition which asked for an apology to Turing from the British government.
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Frequent Releases Change Software Engineering
If you started deploying software much more frequently, how would it change your software development?
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CS Faculty Cause Inequality
A series of recent articles suggests that higher education in the United States is actually causing inequality, and that CS faculty play a role in that.
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Future World: Utopia?
A personal point of view about some technologies of the future world.
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The Benefits of Public Engagement
Working with public engagment projects can be satisfying, and has benefits for the researcher as well as the general public. This article describes my current Making...
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The World Is Small
Not that many years ago international travel meant one was largely inaccessible to colleagues at home. Today, when my plane lands, I will turn on my smart phone...
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Robotic Delight
Corporate showrooms offer floor after floor of lovable digital strangeness. It's easy to forget they're after your cash.
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Perception Matters
The rapid pace of technology means that there are solutions that worked well, but are now abandoned -- not always for technical reasons. Perceptions about a technology...
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Atonement
A pointer to the petition to get an apology to Alan Turing from the British Government.
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Venture Research
HCI research is moving out of the lab and onto the web. This new style of research -- Venture Research -- calls for a different set of skills and different metrics...
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