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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
Windows Reimagined
Windows 8 is going to be a big change for a lot of people. Microsoft is of course doing a lot to help people prepare for this. As part of this effort Microsoft...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Universities Should Host High School Programming Contests
I finished up last week with a trip to Western New England University where they were running a high school programming contest. I love these events because I think...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
26 March 2012
Busy week (as usual) in between meetings and trying to Get ready for Windows 8. I also spent some time at a high school programming contest which I
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Who Is In Charge
I have to confess that I have not been doing a great job of keeping up with my blog reading lately. I
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Ready For Windows 8
Like almost everyone at Microsoft I have been hard at work getting ready for Windows 8. I
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Best and Most Innovative Teachers
Being somewhat opinionated about the subject (who am I kidding
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone Software Development Kit
I know I have mentioned the Windows Phone SDK (software development kit) a lot in the past but usually only as a reference along with other things. It really deserves...
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Interesting Links 19 March 2012
Have you gotten the free software tools to develop for Windows Phone 7.5 and Xbox LIVE Indie Games Please take a look at these great resources. By the way I have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ChronoZoom
Microsoft Research announced a new project a couple of days ago called ChronoZoom - An Infinite Canvas in Time and you can get full information at that link but...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pex4fun, an online lab for APCS
Are you teaching Advanced Placement Computer Science? Are you looking for supplemental exercises that may help you students with the concepts? If so this announcement...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Tic Tac Toe for Windows Phone
Introduction We are going to create a simple Tic Tac Toe game for Windows Phone. We
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 March 2012
In between the usual meetings, email exchanges, phone calls and meeting basketball stars (Why College?) I managed to collect a good number of links this week....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Dr Z
If you have downloaded and installed the new Windows 8 Consumer Preview you have noticed that is is different. In many ways very different from previous versions...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why College?
Yesterday Edwin Guarin and I represented Microsoft at the formal opening of a computer lab at the Clark Elementary and Middle school in Hartford CT. The lab was...
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Register for CSTA's 2012 Annual CS&IT Conference
CSTA's Annual CS&IT Conference This is the big and best professional development event of the year for middle and high school computer science educators. The program...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Using Kinect for Windows with XNA Curriculum
I mentioned Rob Miles new Using Kinect for Windows with XNA curriculum in Monday
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS 2012 Strawman Draft Comment Period Open
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, (ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Strawman draft) the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013) Strawman...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
More on Signing Up for DreamSpark and AppHub
About a month ago I wrote a post (DreamSpark and AppHub Sign Up) to help people step through the process of signing up for DreamSpark and AppHub accounts. The problem...
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Interesting Links 5 March 2012
I took some vacation days last week. Here in New Hampshire the weather has been wild. On Tuesday I went kayaking with my son and on Thursday we had a major snow...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson