Articles Tagged: Computer science education
Articles & Features
Integrating technology into health
By Jasmine DeHart, September 2021
With fairness and generalizability for all
By Jasmine DeHart, June 2021
Network connectivity made easy with the NetRecon lab
By Jasmine DeHart, March 2021
Fast, private, and fair
By Jasmine DeHart, December 2020
SECTION: Features
Computing as an evolving discipline
Throughout computing's history, there have been dramatically different opinions on what computing, as a discipline, is "really" about. Each decade has changed our views of bleeding-edge technology, core knowledge in computing, the nature of computing as a discipline, and the essential skills and competence of computing professionals.
By Matti Tedre, October 2018
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
Why "celebrate women in computing"?
The XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from conference coverage, to security and privacy, to CS theory. Selected blog posts, edited for print, are featured in every issue. Please visit xrds.acm.org/blog to read each post in its entirety. If you are interested in joining as a student blogger, please contact us.
By Nur Al-huda Hamdan, December 2015
DEPARTMENT: Updates
Excellence around the world
This year's ACM award winners share how their chapters came out on top.
By Claudia Schulz, November 2015
DEPARTMENT: Labz
The virtual human interaction lab
Stanford, California
By Andrea Stevenson Won, November 2015
DEPARTMENT: Updates
A community for learning
At Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, the students are also the teachers
By Claudia Schulz, July 2015
DEPARTMENT: Labz
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
By Sam Abujudeh, July 2015
DEPARTMENT: Updates
ACM-W chapters at home and abroad
An initiative on women, not of women
By Claudia Schulz, March 2015
DEPARTMENT: Labz
Cyber security centre
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
By Luke Garratt, March 2015
SECTION: Features
Profile: Trevor van Mierlo
The story of building a startup in health informatics
By Adrian Scoică, December 2014
COLUMN: Careers
Successfully transitioning from academia to entrepreneurship
By Farnaz Ronaghi, October 2014
DEPARTMENT: Labz
National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM)
By Georgios Kontonatsios, Matt Shardlow, October 2014
COLUMN: INIT
Women, hip-hop, and self-teaching
the new diversity in computing
By Jean Yang, June 2014
SECTION: Features
It's deeper than rap, toward culturally responsive CS
Using hip-hop lyrics and artificial intelligence to engage more students in computer science based on their cultural background.
By Omoju Miller, June 2014
In search of diverse students
In Germany, the IGaDtools4MINT research project aims to integrate gender and diversity in STEM subjects.
By Tobias Berg, Rebecca Apel, Carmen Leicht-Scholten, June 2014
Gendered expectations
A look at how implicit biases influence the advancement of women in science and engineering.
By Eve Fine, Amy Wendt, Molly Carnes, June 2014
COLUMN: Letter from the editors
Enriching your network via diversity
By Inbal Talgam-Cohen, March 2014
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
The many stages of writing a paper, and how to close the deal
Originally posted on The Geomblog
By Suresh Venkatasubramanian, December 2013
DEPARTMENT: Labz
Cryptography, security and privacy (CrySP) research group
By Atif Khan, December 2013
DEPARTMENT: Labz
CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (Pittsburgh, PA)
CUPS, a research lab at Carnegie Mellon University, is dedicated to addressing the broad array of challenges collectively called "usable privacy and security."
By Rich Shay, September 2013
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
Blogs
The XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from conference overviews to privacy and security, from HCI to cryptography. Selected blog posts, edited for print, will be featured in every issue. Please visit xrds.acm.org/blog to read each post in its entirety.
By Gidi Nave, Arefin Huq, June 2013
DEPARTMENT: Labz
Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Technology Laboratory (AIART lab)
By Mohammad Arif, June 2013
DEPARTMENT: News
Harvard undergraduates earn silver medal in ACM-ICPC
By Michael Zuba, December 2012
SECTION: Features
Online education for developing contexts
A personal experience with academia in Pakistan leads to using online education initiatives as an opportunity for massive improvement.
By Arjumand Younos, December 2012
Voices in ICT for development
Researchers from around the world tell us about their personal and institutional efforts in international development.
By Nithya Sambasivan, December 2012
Lessons and opportunities in ICT4D
If ICT4D aims to effectively answer the grand challenges it faces, young researchers, in both design and computer science, must be aware of the consequences of how terminology frames this field, be willing to critique and adjust research methods and attend to neglected, challenging concepts.
By Samantha Merritt, December 2012
How to be an "entrepredemic"
The life of an academic entrepreneur can help you avoid a false choice.
By Jonathan Friedman, June 2012
An interview with Mendel Rosenblum
The co-founder of VMware and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford explains how an academic research project evolved into a commercial idea.
By Asaf Cidon, Tomer London, June 2012
Want a tenure?
Why running a startup is a lot like building a research lab.
By Eldar Sadikov, Montse Medina, June 2012
On education in entrepreneurship
Jessica Mah started her first company, internshipIN.com, at the age of 13, shortly after she began her studies in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently Product Architect and CEO of inDinero.com, which she co-founded during her undergraduate studies, she discusses the value of her computer science education and how it affected her entrepreneurial path.
By Christina Pop, June 2012
A linear function for the toughest choice
As you journey along your career path, how will you decide which way to turn when you reach the academia-industry fork in the road?
By Pierpaolo Baccichet, June 2012
SECTION: Features
An interview with Robert Soare
University of Chicago's Robert Soare, the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, offers his reflections on Alan Turing.
By Arefin Huq, March 2012
Why now is the right time to study quantum computing
Quantum computing is not merely a recipe for new computing devices, but a new way of looking at the world.
By Aram Harrow, March 2012
Future of computing
The intersection of biology and computer science is pushing computation beyond its traditional limits---forget algorithms think evolution.
By Dennis Shasha, March 2012
Profile Dickie George
looking back on 40 years at the NSA
By Robert J. Simmons, March 2012
SECTION: Features
Profile Ed Boyden
The synthetic neurobiologist
By Robert J. Simmons, September 2011
DEPARTMENT: Updates
What a wonderful world
ACM student chapters around the globe
By Vaggelis Giannikas, June 2011
DEPARTMENT: Labz
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California
By Gideon Juve, June 2011
Staying disciplined during an interdisciplinary degree
By Daniel W. Goldberg, December 2009
CS education in the U.S.
By Robert Dewar, Owen Astrachan, September 2009
On teaching computer science
By David Chiu, December 2008
Mixed nuts
By Sid Stamm, June 2008
At a crossroads
By Chris Jordan, September 2007
Introduction
By William Stevenson, August 2004
A day in the life of ... William Stallings
By William Stallings, August 2004
Mixed nuts
By Sid Stamm, August 2004
Requirements engineering
By Kristina Winbladh, August 2004
The development of a game playing framework using interface-based programming
By Mark A. Cohen, August 2004
Using practical toys, modified for technical learning
By Tracey Lynn Weisheit, August 2004
What is a good first programming language?
By Diwaker Gupta, August 2004
An intellectual property course for CS majors
By John P. Kozma, Thomas Dion, September 2001
A day in the life of…
By Hal Berghel, December 2000
Choosing a Ph.D. program in computer science
By Rachel Pottinger, September 1999
The Damocles Sword of Academic Publishing
Doctoral students often find it hard to understand at what level of productivity they should be. Through an analysis of resums of doctoral students in the Management Information Systems (MIS) field, a better understanding of what is expected of current students as compared to former students is achieved. Both conference presentations and publications in journals are examined. Finally, there is an examination of whether the quantity of publications can be related to the ranking of the school that a student attends.
By Kai Larsen, November 1998
Advice for undergraduates considering graduate school
By Phil Agre, May 1997
Social responsibility and the CS student
By Saul Jimenez, May 1995
How to be a terrible thesis advisor
By Nigel Ward, February 1995