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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
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
2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Day One
Oh what a day! I’m at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond WA this week. This is a big event for Microsoft Research with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 July 2012
The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit starts today (about noon eastern US time) Much of it will be streamed at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Post CS & IT 2012 Thoughts
The first part of this week was spent in Irvine CA for the 2012 CS & IT Conference. It
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Tip Calculator Hands On Lab for Windows Phone
This is the basic instructions for the demo I did as part of the Mobile App Development throwdown at the CS & IT Conference July 10th, 2012, Open Visual Studio...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 July 2012
I am writing this from Irvine California where I have come for the CSTA CS & IT Conference. I have already had a bunch of great conversations with people who arrived...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computational Fairy Tales the Book
Just about a year ago I wrote a post about a Computational Fairy Tale blog (Computational Tales) Briefly Dr. Jeremy Kubica, software engineer and manager at Google...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows 8 Developer Camps and Hackathons
A new series of Windows 8 developer events are coming soon! These are special two-day events, with a DevCamp on day one featuring a full day of sessions plus an...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Teachers
Next week is the CSTA Computer Science & Information Technology Conference in Irvine CA. I
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Live Stream 2012
I received this news from the ACM recently. The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit will be available live for the public this year. I
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Where is the computer science at ISTE?
My prime focus at Microsoft is K-12 computer science education. While I am very interested in various areas of using technology in education I basically get paid...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 July 2012
I was pretty quiet last week. Some family stuff going on kept me away from work and (largely) off the Internet. Still over the last few days I have been catching...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links
Well I am not at ISTE this year. Sorry to miss it but in the long run it worked out as I am taking care of some important family stuff this week. If you are there...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science in the Common Core
Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I really believe that we need more computer science in education long before university. The only national influence...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking About Next School Year
As the rolling schedule of school year openings and closings continues it looks like school is just about done everywhere in the US this week. Today is the last...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Studio K
The other day the Kodu team announced Studio K. What is Studio K you ask? In my opinion it
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 June 2012
Some of you may remember that I was nominated for the Top 30 Fascinating Technology Teacher blog voting. I came in at number 7. Thanks to all of you who voted'Who...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why I Love Windows Live Mesh
It could be argued that I have too many computers. There is my cool demo machine
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson