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Misnomer and Malgorithm
The algorithm should be respected; the malgorithm should be rejected.
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AI or Intelligence Augmentation for Education?
Applications of artificial intelligence to education are spreading and intensifying, but we have the acronym backwards. Building ethical, equitable applications...
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NoSQL vs. SQL
Broadly, NoSQL has an absence of strict schemas for entities/attributes, while SQL rigidly relates/regulates the two.
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The Skills Students Gain in Online Learning
The Corona Year as an opportunity for science and engineering students to practice 21st century skills.
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Birthday Bit Boundaries
Which birthdays would have special significance if our culture were binary-based instead of decimal-based?
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Why Focus on Technologies for Human Learning?
By choosing human learning as a topic area, computer scientists can contribute to major societal challenges, win grants in additional programs, and tackle new computer...
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How Do You Calculate on the Abacus?
Considering the use of one of the most long-lived calculating devices.
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Deadlines of the Digital Turn
Sometimes the digital turn forces us to designate things that aren't there.
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The Pros and Cons of Online Lab Classes for Computer Science - 2020 Pandemic Edition
Contrary to expectations, online lab classes during our current pandemic may actually have some benefits over their in-person counterparts.
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Discovery: User Manual of the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World
A rare find: the user manual of the oldest surviving computer in the world, the Zuse Z4 relay machine (1945).
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The Laughing is Over
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. Computer Chess Championship in 1970.
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Things To Do To An Algorithm
What happens when people's fate hangs on machine learning?
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Integrating Computing in School Subjects: A Conceptual Framework for Design and Analysis
This post presents a conceptual framework for integrating computing and computational thinking into other domains. The framework is intended to support curriculum...
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Closing the 'Trust Gap' in Contact Tracing/Exposure Notification Technology
The digitization of contact tracing presents an array of challenges.
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Can Research Universities Become Exponential?
We argue that exponential research and exponential teaching may exert mutual influence and foster each other, creating together the exponential research university...
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Restoring Industry Participation in Computer Science Conferences
When I complained at ISCA 2019 about a lack of papers on real industrial products, I was assigned to help fix the problem.
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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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