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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
Mid Atlantic Developer Expo is Coming!
This event looks interesting. If you are in the mid-Atlantic (say around Virginia) and interested in a local, reasonably prices and potentially seriously educational...
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Why Not C#
Someone recently passed on same objection to using C# as a first or otherwise early programming language. I hear these sorts of comments all the time and while...
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Most Read Posts
I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the top read blog posts from April 2011. I look at both web statistics and RSS statistics.In some ways I feel...
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Interesting Links 2 May 2011
I had an interesting week last week. Took a couple of vacation days
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Academic Feedback Survey
If you are a computer science or information technology professor/instructor/teacher would you help us out as we make plans for how Microsoft can support you in...
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Where Do Female Computer Scientists Come From
As someone who is mildly addicted to statistics and who has a degree in Sociology (really) I found this article in Fast Company very interesting on several levels...
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Problem Solving For All Times
I am not a carpenter. I know carpenters. One of my friends and co-workers is a well-trained restoration carpenter. The work he has done in his own house is to drool...
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DreamSpark, AppHub and Windows Phone Development
So are your graduating high school seniors bored? or perhaps you are still looking for things to do after the AP CS exam. or maybe you know college or high school...
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Interesting Links 25 April 2011
Apparently some people actually do read this blog. I have talked to a couple of people recently who say they keep up with what I
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What Are The Odds
Now I took three semesters of statistics in college. Unfortunately that was 35 years ago and not as much stuck as I would like. Embarrassing but true. So when someone...
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Learning With Visualizations
A picture is worth a thousand words so what is a video worth? Add some music and off you go reaching today
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XNA Game Development Tutorial
From the makers of the
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The Internet is the Answer for School Reform
A friend of mine sent me links (via Slashdot which I occasionally read for the articles myself) that he thought were an interesting contrast. The Internet...
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Interesting Links Post 18 April 2011
Imagine Cup US is over and now we start thinking and planning for the Worldwide Imagine Cup finals in New York City this summer. The CSTA CS & IT Conference will...
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Boring is Bad
I have long been an advocate that teaching should be as much about sharing enthusiasm and it is about imparting information. Teachers who are bored or down on the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kinect For Windows is Coming
You know you want it. Ever since the Kinect was announced back when it was code-named Project Natal you know you were thinking
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Books for Computer Science Students
Ever since I was told about a list of Movies for Computer Science Students and wrote some comments about that list I have been thinking book. Fiction books. Novels...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Be Careful What You Wish For
Mark Guzdial had a guest post by Eric Roberts of Stanford today titled - Guest Post: Eric Roberts on the Dangers of Escalating Enrollments which really got me thinking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson