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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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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...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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...
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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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Free Microsoft Office Add-ins for Educators
Just in time to start off the new school year, several new supporting tools are now updated for teacher use. You can read some summaries below but first check out...
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Interesting Links 16 August 2010
I was on vacation last week. I could not seem to stay away from the Internet and from blogging though. So there were blog posts and I was on Twitter a good bit....
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Non-Myths About Programming
Mark Guzdial attended the first day of the ICER 2010 conference in Denmark this week. He blogged about that day (Blogging the first day of ICER 2010) and it sure...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson