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ChatGPT (and Other Generative AI Applications) as a Disruptive Technology for Computer Science Education: Obsolescence or Reinvention
Generative AI may turn out to be disruptive technologies for computer science education, but generative AI can also be conceived…
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The Benefits of Public Engagement
Working with public engagment projects can be satisfying, and has benefits for the researcher as well as the general public. This article describes my current Making...
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The World Is Small
Not that many years ago international travel meant one was largely inaccessible to colleagues at home. Today, when my plane lands, I will turn on my smart phone...
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Robotic Delight
Corporate showrooms offer floor after floor of lovable digital strangeness. It's easy to forget they're after your cash.
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Perception Matters
The rapid pace of technology means that there are solutions that worked well, but are now abandoned -- not always for technical reasons. Perceptions about a technology...
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Atonement
A pointer to the petition to get an apology to Alan Turing from the British Government.
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Venture Research
HCI research is moving out of the lab and onto the web. This new style of research -- Venture Research -- calls for a different set of skills and different metrics...
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Breaking the Cycle
Today's practice of a deadline-driven approach to research is potentially bad for our field. Instead, our focus should be on the quality of the research we do....
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Ubiquity
Technology and information are ominpresent in Tokyo, but nobody seems to notice; a look at the future of ultra-integrated high technology.
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Is C All There Is?
Increasingly, CS departments are moving to a programming language monoculture--it's C or C-derived languages throughout the curriculum. What are we losing out...
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Is Advertising Inherently Deceptive?
People dislike current advertising because it is often irrelevant and annoying. It would be good to make advertising more helpful, relevant, and useful to people...
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What Does a Computer Scientist Do?
About a potentially radical redevelopment of the computing curriculum in Scotland
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Impact, Not Indicators or Artifacts
It is worth remembering that our field grew from the confluence of mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, psychology, information theory and management and...
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How We Make Decisions About CS1
How do we decide what to put in our introductory courses, and for who, and using what language? My experience suggests that we make our decisions more on the basis...
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Beyond Current Horizons
A brief description of a UK project which attempts to predict what society will be like in 30 years time.
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Progress in Internet Networking in La
Access to the Internet has always been a problem in South America and especially in some areas where there is no infrastructure, but this is slowly changing. ...
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Locomotive Complexity
Reflections on the the Japanese railyway system as a modern marvel of efficiency and infrastructure.
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As I Once Thunk
Is it time to capture the magic that attracted us into computer science in an essential course called Computing?
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Bridging Cultures For Collaboration
All too often, our technical curricula fail to focus on the human aspect of cross-domain collaboration. Technical skills are necessary, but not sufficient. One...
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