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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
Computer Crackers are Evil
Recently a friend of mine, Vicki Davis, received a pre-publication copy of the new book by Kevin Mitnick the famous cracker. Vicki wrote here review of the book...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup Projects
Many of the best projects that are entered in the Imagine Cup are inspired by real people solving problems that have deep meaning for the project team. For some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Congratulations Louis Zulli Jr. and Doug Bergman
There were nine winners in the Partners in Learning 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum, four second place winners and five first place winners (one of these was...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 August 2011
Last week was incredible at the US Innovative Education Forum. I
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Innovative Education Forum–Judging Day
Wow! Just WOW! I spent yesterday judging teacher projects as part of the US Innovative Educator Forum in Redmond. It was absolutely inspiring. In fact I would go...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Innovative Education Forum
Wow! Just WOW! I spent yesterday judging teacher projects as part of the US Innovative Educator Forum in Redmond. It was absolutely inspiring. In fact I would go...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Innovative Educator Forum Judge Workshop
For some competitions one selects a bunch of smart people, hands them a rubric and says
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hacking Vs. Programming
What is the difference between Hacking and programming? One opinion I have heard expressed is that a hacker can put a lot of code together in a hurry but if a change...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Small Grants for CS Education
If you are involved in K-12 computer science education you really owe it to yourself to join the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) And if you are a member...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Encapsulation
My good friend Sam Stokes posted an introduction to Encapsulation not long ago. Not that I am competitive mind you but I thought I could do better. And since I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 July 2011
I was on vacation last week. I had not Internet or cell phone access for a week. It was wonderful as I really needed the break. Don’t we all need a break now and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Introducing the IT History Society
Last week I received two messages about the IT History Society
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What does it mean?
Last week I had the chance to hear Douglas Rushkoff talk at the annual CSTA CS&IT Symposium. All of the conference attendees were also given a copy of his book ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why are all programming languages in English?
Last week I was at the CSTA Computer Science & Information Technology conference in New York City. One of the great thing about events like this is the hallwayDave...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are your students entered in the Windows Phone app contest
This Summer, build Windows Phone 7 apps and you could earn exciting prizes to catch a movie, eat ice – cream, buy camping gear and more!! This special competition...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Small Basic 1.0 is here!
Have you been working with Small Basic? If so you probably know that it has officially been pre-release software. Well not it is released software and you can now...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 18 July 2011
Quite a week last week. You may have read my posts about the CSTA CS & IT Conference. I hope you did because it was a great conference. The first ever WorldWide...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson