‘A Very Exciting Time to be at the Helm’
A conversation with U.S. National Science Foundation director Sethuraman Panchanathan.
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The RISC-V open standard instruction-set architecture can improve cybersecurity.
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).
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. Computer Chess Championship in 1970.
‘We Have Emphasized Learning and Compassion’
Computer science instruction adjusts to the coronavirus pandemic.
Students Need to Know What Success in Computing Looks Like, Starting from Realistic Expectations
Intro CS students sometimes think professional programmers are super-human, which makes it hard to live up to those expectations.
Anticipating the Feeling Economy
As artificial intelligence proliferates, human emotional intelligence increasingly will be prized in workers.
Boosting diversity in the computer science field remains a challenge even after years of effort. A growing focus on universities may deliver results.
Testing Asimov’s Idea for Power From Space
Isaac Asimov's notion of capturing energy in space and beaming it to the Earth’s surface faces its first orbital testing.
Where Have All the Domestic Graduate Students Gone?
U.S. Government actions to restrict immigration could result in a dramatic reduction in the number of international graduate students in U.S. universities, and will have a devastating impact on U.S. graduate programs in computing.
Aaron Hertzman's Viewpoint "Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do," makes excellent points as to why it is very unlikely that computers will ever replace artists.
Teaching CS Undergrads Online to Work With Others Effectively
Orit Hazzan on the challenges of taking a CS soft skills class online after teaching it in a classroom for a decade.
Avalanches Make Us All Innovators
Avalanches generate enormous breakdowns. The practices of innovation adoption may be just what you need to resolve them.
Integrating Management Science Into the HPC Research Ecosystem
How management science benefits from High Performance Computing.
Investigating student knowledge transfer and metacognitive activities at college CS departments and at coding bootcamps.
Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy
In distributed systems theory, CALM presents a result that delineates the frontier of the possible.
Preparation for Building the First Swiss Digital Computer (Ermeth)
Eduard Stiefel's study trip to the U.S. in 1948/1949.
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 and assessment design, as well as providing analysis of examples of practice.
Brain-to-Brain interfaces give a new meaning to putting our heads together.
Creepy Robots of the Coronavirus Era
The robots policing people as they begin to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns are not being mistaken for anyone's friends.
Picking Locks with Audio Technology
How eavesdropping smartphones could give thieves a copy of your front door key.
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