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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
Being Careful About Examples
Yesterday I posted some very simple sample code. I have to admit that I spent a lot of time on some of the details but may not have spent enough on some of the...
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How Many Letters Are There in The Alphabet?
You saw the title and a single number came to mind. If you are English speaking your probably thought
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Interesting Links 13 September 2010
Lots of good links this week. And if you are visiting via the web I wrote a rare week-end post on Object Oriented Programming.Design that I hope you
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Objects When? If Ever?
This post started as a comment on Mark Guzdial
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Most Popular Posts From August
It turns out the be complicated to figure out what the most popular blog posts are for a particular month. There are two sets of data I look through. One set, from...
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How I Wound Up in Computer Science
The Computer Science Women blog (http://www.compsciwoman.com/ and on Twitter @Compsciwoman) has been running a series of posts by women detailing how they found...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visualizations and Sorting
I love visualizations. One of my all time favorites are the programs that show how different sorting algorithms work. I was reminded of this by a recent post by...
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Interesting Links 6 September 2010
Happy Labor Day! Well here in the US anyway. Technically a public/work holiday and I do plan to spend most of it relaxing. Unless my wife has other plans that is...
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Students And Intellectual Property Rights
Earlier this week a friend sent me a couple of links to articles on intellectual property and students. One was about piracy (Future Tense: Piracy Revisited) and...
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Dr. James Parrish
Dr. James Parrish is on the faculty at the University of Arkansas Little Rock and has recently started a blog. (James Parrish blog) It looks like he will be blogging...
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Time To Mine the Data
Or is it “mind” the data? Last week I read a blog post by Stacey Armstrong (CS News – Video Game Data Mining) that linked to an article about how game companies...
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Interesting Posts 30 August 2010
One of the things I tell people when they ask me about why I came to work for Microsoft is that the company has grown up in many ways over the years. One of those...
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Error Messages and Providing Information
The most interesting error message I ever saw read something like
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Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Game Development
Announcing the first part of a series of educational resources for learning to create games for Windows Phone 7. Get introduced to Windows Phone 7, and phone...
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Interesting Links Post 23 August 2010
Happy Monday! Are you back to school yet? A lot of teachers are. If you are back I hope it is going well. If not yet, are you working out to get into
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Shortening the Time To Fun
Recently my friend and co-worker Dan Waters was giving a presentation about XNA Game Studio as a development platform for the new Windows Phone 7s. One of the benefits...
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Girls, Games and Software Development
Girls play games – computer games, video games, console games, online games – all kinds of games. Yet girls are not big into creating their own computer games.Women...
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Computer Science is NOT Boring!
Well I guess a lot of people, especially students thing computer science is boring. According to a recent article (Steve Furber: why kids are turned off computing...
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