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Technology in the Time of Cataclysms
How is the development of technology, and its more basic cousin science, affected during such cataclysmic times?
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Automatic Translators are Not Really Capable of Learning
One does not get the impression the Google Translate and DeepL translation programs are self-learning and have made real progress.
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CS Teachers, It's (Past) Time To Learn About Race
We need to send the message that we are willing to change CS education in order to address historic and systemic inequities.
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The Virus Analogy and Validation
The comparison between organic viruses and computer viruses is compelling. But why?
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Is A (Nearly) Zero-Cost Model Plausible for Science and Engineering Programs?
Is a skill-based, multi-level win-win, and (almost) zero-cost model for undergraduate science and engineering programs in a research university plausible?
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The World's Largest Commercial Cylindrical Slide Rule has a Scale Length of 24m
The world's largest mass-produced cylindrical slide rules come from Loga-Calculator AG in Zurich/Uster, Switzerland.
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Hacking the Axis
The role of early high-performance computing capabilities in World War II.
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Students Get the Idea They're Unwanted When There Are Enrollment Barriers: Touring the Best of SIGCSE 2020
Best paper awardee at SIGCSE 2020 on the impacts on first-year students of competitive enrollment.
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The COVID Catalyst
The coronavirus pandemic has once again demonstrated the great vulnerability of social and economic systems to microbes.
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Learning Computational Thinking to Dominate the Music Industry
Music can be a context for middle school students to learn about computational thinking and data science. In a game environment, students can play the role in which...
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Would There Be Computers Without Easter?
Finding roots of computing in the computation of Easter.
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Contingency Plans for CS Students in Large Classes
Some of our students will get sick before the end of the term. We need a plan.
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Powerful Online Learning is a Distributed System
In the midst of a pandemic, universities are now rapidly shifting to online and remote learning. Here, I will suggest a core metaphor for what powerful online learning...
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Beware of Hurting Our Weakest Students when Moving Classes Online
Our weakest students should not be the ones bearing the greatest costs of moving classes online.
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Voting as Tallying in Public
Voting requires common acknowledgement. Can that be achieved in automation?
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How Does a Pantograph Work?
Pantographs have been widely used for centuries; for example, in surveying and embroidery. With these devices, drawings can be enlarged and reduced.
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How Do We Make AI More Ethical?
Scientists consider the limits of ethics in the realm of artificial intelligence, and how to mitigate its biases.
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