Articles Tagged: Computing education programs
Articles & Features
SECTION: Features
Sports and machine learning: How young people can use data from their own bodies to learn about machine learning
In order to foster interest in machine learning among young people, presented are simple and effective ways to engage kids using sensors on their own bodies.
By Abigail Zimmermann-Niefield, R. Benjamin Shapiro, Shaun Kane, July 2019
Data in motion: Supporting youth interest in athletics through multimodal data analytics
Engagement in STEM learning using athletics and data analytics allows young people to use customizable technological devices to analyze performance.
By Melissa Perez, Stephanie Jones, JaCoya Thompson, Marcelo Worsley, July 2019
DEPARTMENT: Labz
Faster computers for all
Efficient Computing Laboratory, Texas State University
By Sepideh Maleki, April 2019
Personalizing health care
Hugh Kaul Personalized Medicine Institute, University of Alabama Birmingham
Hugh Kaul personalized medicine institute, University of Alabama Birmingham
By Sepideh Maleki, January 2019
COLUMN: Letter from the editors
The expanding landscape of computer science
By Diane Golay, October 2018
COLUMN: Accolades
A paradigm shift: how CS has intrinsically changed society
By Anukruti Mathur, October 2018
SECTION: Features
Computer science as a global language
How computer science helped me become a citizen of the world and the lessons real-life experiences taught me about effectively interacting with other people.
By María Andreína Francisco Rodríguez, October 2018
The arbitrary nature of computing curricula
Computing is still a young discipline with new topics emerging daily, spawning an extended family of disciplines, which makes negotiating a curriculum an inherently fraught process that will not meet everybody's needs.
By Tony Clear, October 2018
DEPARTMENT: Labz
Programming languages in security
Principles of Programming Group, Carnegie Mellon University
By Sepideh Maleki, October 2018
DEPARTMENT: Labz
Encrypting a functionality
Crypto Lab, University of Texas at Austin
By Sepideh Maleki, July 2018
COLUMN: Letter from the editors
Multidisciplinary systems engineering
By Jennifer Jacobs, December 2017
SECTION: Features
Leveraging personal experience for academic research and outreach
Use your individuality to build your career path whether it leans toward academia, outreach, or both. The existing underlying threads between your experiences and the pursuit of research problems might surprise you.
By Joslenne Peña, December 2017
DEPARTMENT: Labz
Social and psychological questions about humans and technology
The Stanford Social Media Lab
By David M. Markowitz, December 2017
DEPARTMENT: Updates
MacACM: Encouraging competitive programming via mentorship and outreach
By Anshuman Majumdar, September 2017
DEPARTMENT: Updates
Kean ACM-W: promoting women's participation in CS
By Anshuman Majumdar, June 2017
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
COLUMN: Advice
When should you quit your Ph.D.?
I cannot do this for the rest of my life.
By Andy J. Hunsucker, December 2016
Time management as a Ph.D.
By Andrew J. Hunsucker, September 2016
COLUMN: Letter from the editors
Impractical, impossible, and interdisciplinary: pushing the boundaries of computer science
By Okke Schrijvers, June 2016
COLUMN: Advice
Why you need Allies as a Ph.D.
Good research requires strong connections.
By Andrew J. Hunsucker, June 2016
DEPARTMENT: Updates
ACM TEC GDA addresses Mexico's social needs one app at a time
By David Byrd, June 2016
COLUMN: Letter from the editors
Supporting creativity, expressiveness and complexity through personal fabrication
By Jennifer Jacobs, April 2016
COLUMN: INIT
Digital fabrication: a human-machine interface for advanced manufacturing
By Stefanie Mueller, Nadya Peek, April 2016
DEPARTMENT: Updates
RIT SIGCHI
Democratizing digitization, campus outreach, and more
By David Byrd, April 2016
DEPARTMENT: Labz
Design Informatics Lab
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
By Feras Alsaggaf, Javier Villarroel, Billy Wong, April 2016
COLUMN: Accolades
Women who paved the way for IoT
A teacher finds her voice
By Kayalvizhi Jayavel, December 2015
FEATURE: Features
The ambient intelligence course at Politecnico di Torino
At Italy's oldest technical university, students learn about IoT concepts and technologies by building end-to-end prototypical systems.
By Luigi De Russis, December 2015
DEPARTMENT: Labz
SWARM joint open lab Politecnico Di Torino, Italy
By Teodoro Montanaro, December 2015