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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
Interesting Links 22 October 2012
Earthquake! Yes earthquakes are rare in New England where I live but we had one last week. Shook things up a bit. Not injuries or damage as it was a mild one as...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Stereotypes That Refuse To Die
One of the areas on Facebook is called Trust Me I’m an “Engineer.” where humorous (for sometimes interesting definitions of humorous) images are posted. I don’t...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I Can Figure It Out Myself
I set out for my daily walk today hoping for inner peace and calm. What I found was a bit of inspiration. About a half mile into my walk I saw a little girl, could...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Finish the Features or Hit the Date
In professional development there is always a trade off between what features to have in a product and when you want to ship the product. Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Killing Curiosity
I have real mixed feelings about the Advanced Placement exams in general and the AP Computer Science exam in particular. Very mixed. There are some criticisms in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visual Basic Gangnam Style!
Last week I was browsing though my RSS feeds and came across a post called Python Gangnam Style! that was all about playing music with Python. Now Python is a fine...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Apps4VA Hackathons
My friend Ed Donahue asked me to pass along some information about Apps4VA and their upcoming hackathons this weekend. Apps4VA sounds pretty cool so I am happyApps4VA...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 October 2012
Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. One of the things I did was to attend the New Hampshire TechFest at a local high school. NH TechFest is an annual event...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
On the value of a CS education
Back at the beginning of my career a hiring manager told me that he almost recommended that I not be interviewed because I had been formally trained in college....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
HS Computer Science Honor Society Survey
There has been talk about a high school computer science honor society among the high school CS education community for years. For the most part it hasn’t gotten...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Top Computer Science Educators on Twitter
I’ve been maintaining a very loosely curated list of computer science educators and resources on Twitter for a while now. I make no claim that it includes everyone...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Award for Aspiration in Computing 2012 Reminder
Time for a reminder. Now that school has been underweight for a while you may have identified some young women who would be good candidates for the NCWIT Award....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are Your Students Whiteboard Ready?
One of my former students is the CTO of a startup these days. He posted today about the need for all of the employees of his company to be “whiteboard ready.” His...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Layers and Layers
Several years ago a teacher asked me to help with a problem one of her students was having. The student had decided to combine all of the semester’s projects into...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 October 2012
It’s the Columbus Day holiday in the US. Or as we call it in my family Leif Landed First day. Either way a lot of schools have a holiday today. I’m traveling today...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Problem With Courses
Lots of interesting side comments come up during some curriculum discussions. At a recent meeting of the CS 2013 task force one of the committee members made a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Real Disruption of 3D Printing
The latest “disruption” people seem to be talking a lot about is 3D printing. A lot of the attention has been caused by a group of people calling themselves Defense...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Omnibus Software (and hardware)
I have several “Swiss Army” type tools. You know the ones with all the different blades, screw drivers and pliers in one tool. They are ok for simple tasks but...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Certified or Qualified
Certification is a hot topic for K-12 computer science educators. It’s a big issue in public schools but not so much in private schools. The concern in privateAm...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson