Ethics discussions of artificial intelligence reveal a fallacy of omission.
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An Agile Approach to Learning Programming
The Super Simple Programming Book is one example to teach programming in an Agile way. In general, Agile concepts can lead to highly effective learning.
Using Independent Technical Reviews to Ensure Project Success
By using independent technical reviews, management can have a third party audit software and ensure the dev team stays on track.
Painting On Perovskites at Room Temperature
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors are suited to many electro-optical applications.
The Fine Line Between Coercion and Care
Employers monitoring their workforce must balance productivity and security considerations with employee privacy and welfare concerns.
In (Virtual) Defense of Democracy
There are two ways to proceed with political discourse in cyberspace, if the trolls are to be tamed.
Calculating With Roman Numerals is Not So Difficult
How to deal with Roman numerals and without a sign for zero in an additive number system, if no hand abacus is available?
Computer Science Was Invented to Teach Everyone About Everything
Our goal should not be Computational Thinking, but Science, Mathematics, History, Engineering, and *Everything* Thinking.
Why is privacy so hard? Why is it, after so much negative press about it, are we still being constantly tracked on the web and on our smartphones? Why is it, after so many years of bad incidents and high profile data breaches, has the problem of privacy not yet been solved? I sketch out 11 reasons why we are failing at privacy.
Big data can support the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
What SIGCSE's Top 10 Lists tell us about the growing field of Computer Science Education (and computer science more broadly).
Human Resources departments are taking advantage of the workforce management capabilities provided by artificial intelligence.
Owning Computing’s Environmental Impact
It is time for the computing community to face up to computing's growing environmental impact—and take responsibility for it.
The Internet and the World Wide Web are dependent on the stewardship of a key set of non-profit institutions.
Smoothing the Path to Computing; Pondering Uses for Big Data
Members of the Computing Research Association suggest ways to broaden participation in computer science, while Saurabh Bagchi looks at use cases for big data.
Wearable mobile machines integrate people and machines to assist the movement-impaired, and amplify the capabilities of industrial and defense workers while protecting them from injury.
Demand is expected to spike over the next few years, leading to higher prices and international trade issues.
Questioning a New Intellectual Property Right for Press Publishers
Considering the implications of the "link tax" provision of the proposed EU Directive for the Digital Single Market for traditional press publishers.
Potential ‘Dark Sides’ of Leisure Technology Use in Youth
Time for balanced reflections on technology.
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