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COLUMN: INIT

DEI in computing

By Jordan Taylor, Adinawa Adjagbodjou, July 2022

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SECTION: Features

The women bricoleurs of technology

Understanding the value of reaching from theory to practice by revisiting the contributions of women before us and our assumptions about how we create valuable impact for the future.

By Deborah Schultz, March 2021

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COLUMN: Letter from the editors

Opening the black box

By Gierad Laput, April 2019

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Notable computer scientists

DEPARTMENT: Milestones

Notable computer scientists

By Alok Pandey, October 2018

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DEPARTMENT: Back

Equality through digital technology

Dedicated to Alan Mathison Turing (1912--1954), a pioneer of computer science

By Vasileios Kalantzis, December 2017

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On entrepreneurship

SECTION: Features

On entrepreneurship

Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, shares his ideas about entrepreneurship learning, finding the right people, and navigating failure with grace.

By Jie Qi, June 2017

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The Heidelberg Laureate Forum on the moving frontier between mathematics and computer science

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum on the moving frontier between mathematics and computer science

Young and early-career researchers at the 2016 Heidelberg Laureate Forum discuss how the frontier between mathematics and computer science is shifting, what the future promises, and the implications the frontier's shape and dynamics will have on both fields.

By Edmon Begoli, Vincent Schlegel, Michael Atiyah, Praise Adeyemo, Tim Baarslag, April 2017

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The nature and limits of computation

COLUMN: INIT: issue introduction

The nature and limits of computation

By Arefin Huq, March 2012

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What is computation?

SECTION: Features

What is computation?

Our culture is in the process of renegotiating what it thinks computation and computer really mean.

By Ian Horswill, March 2012

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An interview with Robert Soare

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

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Bletchley Park<br />Milton Keynes, UK

DEPARTMENT: Labz

Bletchley Park
Milton Keynes, UK

By Vaggelis Giannikas, March 2012

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Turing's Bombe

DEPARTMENT: Back

Turing's Bombe

By James Stanier, March 2012

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A day in the life of…

By Hal Berghel, December 2000

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ACM awards banquet 2000, vicariously

By Lynellen D. S. Perry, July 2000

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Road crew

By John Cavazos, April 1998

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Road crew

By John Cavazos, November 1997

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An interview with Drew McDermott

By Kentaro Toyama, Drew McDermott, September 1996

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An interview with Brad Templeton

By George E. Hatoun, Brad Templeton, February 1996

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Programming Perl

By Lorrie Faith Cranor, December 1994

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Interview! Stephen R. Schach

By Saveen Reddy, Stephen R. Schach, December 1994

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