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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
Free Pluralsight On-demand Training via Dreamspark
Microsoft is constantly adding software and other benefits to the DreamSparak program. The latest of these benefits is the opportunity for students to get access...
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Interesting Links 7 March 2011
Are you going to be at SIGCSE in Dallas this week? I get in on Tuesday and with be there until Saturday. I hope that if you are there you will stop by the Microsoft...
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Dream. Build. Play. is back for 2011
Honestly if you are a student you REALLY want to enter the Imagine Cup game development competition. Really you do. But if you missed some of the deadlines (tsk...
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Student Develops Games For Windows Phone 7
Jakub Poznanski, Jake to most people, is studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He was born in Bia?ystok, Poland, but has lived most of hishttp...
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New XNA Jump Start Mini-course
Microsoft recently released a new XNA Jump Start Mini-course. Programming with C# and XNA 0.5: Jump Start is an exciting and engaging 4-5-week introduction...
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The Body As Mouse
Hopefully you have heard of the Kinect for Xbox 360 by now. Perhaps you even have one. Millions of them have been sold and it has really started to change how we...
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Register Now for CSTA's Annual CS&IT Conference 2011
You are cordially invited to attend the 11h annual Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium at Columbia University Faculty House in New York, NY! July...
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Interesting Links 28 February 2011
Lots of interesting posts by computer science teachers last week. And some news from various sources to share. But let
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FizzBuzz
Projects or exercises that lend themselves to many different “correct” solutions are just about the best sorts of learning experiences I can imagine. They really...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Important News For Imagine Cup Game Teams - 2011
I know that a lot of you have been working hard on games. I know that many of you who read this blog have students of teams who have been working very hard of games...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching, Learning and the Job Interview
I was reading a blog post by a college professor the other day (Preparing CS students for programming interviews from day one) that starts off talking about how...
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Interesting Links 21 February 2011
I spent several days in New York City as part of the program committee for CSTA
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What Does Watson Mean?
Researchers at and working with IBM have created a computer and software that played and beat the best human players of the TV game show Jeopardy. This is an event...
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New Software on DreamSpark
Dreamspark is all about free development software for students. This week we added six new or updated products to the mix. This release included: KoduSmallBasic...
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Triangle Shooter
Kenny Spade is a Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist out in California who has been writing a series of blog posts that help one learn how to write a Windows...
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Computing Education and Education Reform
One of my frustrations these days is that with all the talk of education reform there is not much talk about computing education in that mix. It is as if people...
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Interesting Links 14 February 2011
Happy Valentines Day! Surely there is some appropriate computer project or connection for the day but I can’t think of one off hand. Can you? So for me, here are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson