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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Quantity Is Not Enough
There is often a focus on quantity in our society. Let’s get more apps! Lets get more students taking the AP course! Lets get more [you name it]? UnfortunatelyHow...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Online Coding Exercises For Programming Education
Well it is that time of year again – back to school. On the SIGCSE mailing list are a couple of reminders about online exercise tools for a variety of programming...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 August 2012
Back from vacation and trying to catch up with things. I had over 450 unread email messages in spite of doing some triage over the vacation so if I haven’t gotten...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Read Code
We don’t teach students how to read code. Actually we don’t event teach them that they should read code for the most part. The closest we get is sample code inprettyprint...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Try Kinect at your K-12 School
Capturing students' interest...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Recursion First
I’ve long had mixed feelings about recursion. (I’ve written about recursion several times in this blog.) In one post, Recursion Early, Recursion Late, I wrote about...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 August 2012
Well it’s the middle of my vacation. Mostly I’m avoiding the Internet and email. Mostly. I’m not all that good at this vacation thing. In any case I do have a few...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Public Sector TechBytes Series
http://aka.ms/fzytjrTopicTechBytes Windows 8 Development for Government, Healthcare...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2012 Microsoft US Forum Wrap Up
I missed out on most of the US Forum this year but as I said on Monday () I was able to attend the gala that finished out the event with the award ceremony. I wanted...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
You're invited to a Windows 8 DevCamp in city near you
Location DevCamp...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu: Mars Edition
Did you follow the landing of the latest Mars rover – Curiosity? Well if you did or even if you just know a bunch of space crazy students the latest version ofKodu...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 6 August 2012
What a great week last week was. My big planned event was a meeting of the ACM/IEEE CS 2013 committee in Seattle WA. As it turns out that meant I was able to attend...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Construct 2 - the HTML5 game maker
I’ve been experimenting with Construct 2 from Scirra the last few days. Construct 2 is a program from creating HTML 5 games. What really got my interest was that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 30 July 2012
Over on the left here is a picture of a group of young women who visited Microsoft in Cambridge MA recently as part of Boston University’s Artemis Project. This...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Curriculum is Hard
I’ve been involved in a number of curriculum projects over the years. The big one has been the ACM/IEEE CS 2013 task force that is making recommendations on undergraduate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Virtual Windows 8 Hands-on-Labs
Ready to learn how to develop for Windows 8? Well perhaps not quite ready for a dedicated machine or concerned about complicated set-up? Well in those cases the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 July 2012
I had a great week and a great weekend. Busy weekend with family which is the best way to spend the weekend. I’m late with today’s posts though but hopefully you...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Curriculum Resources for App Development on Windows 8
Most of what I post about is specifically for K-12 computer science education but I recently received the following about some curriculum designed for university...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Day Two
Rick Rashid who created and runs Microsoft Research gave the opening keynote for day two. I found it interesting that when they started Microsoft Research they...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson