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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 …
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Cryptography is Hard
I love stories like this - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22/ba_jihadist_trial_sentencing/ Briefly stated a group of would be terrorists rejected all suggestions...
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After The APCS Exam
The Advanced Placement Computer Science exam is just about a month away. While for most schools this is far from the end of the school year for many AP students...
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Interesting Links 4 April 2011
I always worry about posting things on April 1st. So I didn
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Rock Paper Scissors Takes To The Cloud
Rock Paper Scissors is a fun little project I have talked about before (most recently at Heuristics
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Interesting Projects
It seems as though teachers are always looking for new projects to use with students. Projects get stale (at least to a teacher who has been grading lots of them...
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Interesting Links 28 March 2011
I didn
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Could Taking A Computer Science Course Change Your Life?
Well it did mine. And Mark Guzdial ha a post last week in which he told two stories of young women taking his Media Computation course at Georgia Tech and how it...
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FREE Microsoft Certification Exam Vouchers For Students
College student, high school student, any kind of student
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US Imagine Cup People
The Imagine Cup is the premier student technology competition in he world. Yeah, I get excited about it. The US finalists in the Software Design Invitationalhttp...
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Object Oriented Programming is Dead
OK perhaps not dead but Robert Harper, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, says(Teaching FP to freshmen) that object oriented programming and design is...
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Programming Projects Using Arrays
Not long ago someone posted a query to the AP CS list serve looking for projects that use arrays for them to use in their Visual basic programming course. The response...
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Interesting Links Post 21 March 2011
My travel is over for a couple of weeks. Well, about three weeks. Then I will be headed out to Seattle for the US Finals of the Imagine Cup. Look for news of the...
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Whack Something Game for Windows Phone 7
The last several yeas the University of New Hampshire has put on a
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Kodu Cup 2011
Create a new game with Kodu and you could win $5,000 for yourself and your school and lots of great technology! Welcome to the Microsoft Kodu Cup: A...
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Rebirth of DIY Software Development
In the heady, exciting, almost wild West atmosphere of the early days of PCs it seemed like almost everyone I knew was writing software in hopes of making a little...
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Heuristics
How do we learn? How do we develop strategy in games, in work, in our daily lives? We store information and we use information from the past to decide what will...
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Interesting Links 14 March 2011
This highlight of my week last week was being in Dallas Texas for SIGCSE. This is by far my favorite conference of the year. I was able to connect with a bunchTop...
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Python Tools for Visual Studio
Microsoft has just released the Python Tools for Visual Studio add-in (Beta) . This add-in lets programmers write Python code with Ironpython, CPython, debugIronPython...
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Webcast Series for K-12 educators and teacher recognition program
I received the following from the Microsoft Innovative Educators program today and thought it was worth sharing. We have a launched a new Microsoft Innovative...
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