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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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FIRST Women in Science and Technology Forum (WIST) - November 5, 2010
FIRST, the people who bring us a whole range of robotics competitions and more, are once again hosting their annual FIRST Women in Science & Technology Forum. The...
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Kodu Kamp for Educators
OK so you know I am a big fan of Kodu. Perhaps you read about the Kodu workshop I did for students last weekend. Perhaps you just heard about Kodu from some random...
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What does your school need?
The What Our School Needs contest is being run by the Bing team at Microsoft. You are using Bing for your Internet search needs right? Well even if not (and you...
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Kodu Programming For Kids
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What are you using?
I blog about a lot of resources here and I
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Interesting Links 11 October 2010
Yesterday was 10/10/10 which a lot of geek types had fun with. Of course 101010 in binary is 42 in decimal and 42, according to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
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Small Basic Curriculum
Small Basic is, in my opinion, one of the really cool platforms for introducing programming to younger students. A simple IDE, a simple subset of BASIC, and built...
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Running On Empty
The ACM and CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association) released a report this week called
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Should Johnny Learn to Program?
Last week I shared a link on Facebook - Why Johnny Can't Program: A New Medium Requires A New Literacy
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Interesting Links 4 October 2010
What a week. On Friday I gave a keynote talk at the 16th Annual Technology and Learning Conference at Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania. WhatTwitter...
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Would you play this game?
I love puzzles and small little programming projects. When you can combine those two at get a project that you can use for a good learning/teaching experience it...
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Interesting Links 27 September 2010
Last week I wrote a post about the Imagine Cup. (Imagine Cup–Solving the Worlds Problems Through Software) A couple of things I should have mentioned about it though...
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Imagine Cup
There are many indications that today
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Pretty Code
Way back in the old days when programmers coded using simple text editors and command line editors there was a utility called Pretty Print (or some variation)....
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Interesting Links 20 September 2010
I’m happy to see that the Microsoft student website won the “Outstanding Website” award in the Education category from the Web Marketing Association./Student...
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NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing 2010
I really like this award program so I am happy to promote it on my blog. The following is from the official announcement. I strongly encourage you to share this...
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Pex for Fun
Can you read code in C#, F# or Visual Basic? Do you like programming puzzles we (well the Pex Team, part of the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) groupMicrosoft...
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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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