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Re: Research Implications of the Report from the President’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity

Annie Anton — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:07:48 -0000

For those interested in specific areas that the Commission report highlights as ripe for research by the computing research community, the quote specifically states:

"Support should be provided for cybersecurity R&D focused on human factors and usability, public policy, law, metrics, and the societal impacts of cybersecurity. Advances in these areas are critical to ensuring the successful adoption and use of both existing technologies and those that are being developed."

Re: Every College Student Should Take a Computer Science Course

Conall COY — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 05:38:58 -0000

Very informative information posted by you and I really appreciate your work. My brother also join Auston Institute for Computer Course Sri Lanka. This is one of the best and reputed Institute in Sri Lanka.

Re: First Person: “Life as a NSF Program Director”

Doug_Fisher — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 17:39:55 -0000

Since this post, I have blogged about NSF's Broader Impacts criteria, to include perspective stemming from my experience as a Program erector at NSF: http://science-and-governme...

Re: CS URGE: A Resource for Undergraduates

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Re: Computing at the USA Science & Engineering Festival

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Re: “Millions of Printers Open to Hack Attack”

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Re: Another Perspective on the White House NSCI Workshop

Bill Rider — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 20:36:24 -0000

I like your summary of many of the challenges for computing hardware coming at us. Given all of these challenges I am continually perplexed by the approach we take toward high performance computing. Why focus so much attention on the hardware when it is likely to be utterly futile? The computers of future appear to almost impossible to use and quite impressively suboptimal for many important applications.

Our codes have continually produced diminishing returns in performance compared to peak for the last 20 years, and this trend will likely accelerate (or decelerate) with new platforms. Other forms of progress in performance are almost completely ignored such as algorithmic scaling where lack of resources has resulted in stagnation. This is despite showing equal gains to hardware historically. In summary our HPC efforts are completely unbalanced.

Our entire strategy seems to be hardware and its impact on everything upstream from it. Simply making existing code work at all on future platforms is going to swallow almost all the available resources. Meanwhile other proven approaches are completely bypassed.

Re: CISE Researchers Discuss “Security for Cloud Computing”

ZA — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 01:21:13 -0000

What is a good topic for research in Cloud Computing security breach?

Re: New NIH Big Data to Knowledge Funding Opportunities

Aida Thomas — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 02:49:35 -0000

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Re: Explaining Why Computing is Important

James Gledhill — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:25:55 -0000

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Re: Computing for Disaster Management Visioning

James Karanja — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 03:40:37 -0000

Technology has solution to every problem in the universe thus why disaster management techniques have to be computerized for it to be effective. Learn more: http://ku.ac.ke/schools/hum...

Re: Blue Sky Ideas Track Held at Foundations of Software Engineering Symposium

Itbrain Indonesia — Thu, 21 May 2015 02:27:14 -0000

interesting to be discussed

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Re: Spurring Innovation in Healthcare using MOOCS

Ashley — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:21:51 -0000

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include innovation, design, entrepreneurship, and Six Sigma principles and
organizational improvement process and the law of patents, and market forces
that affect the health innovation process.

Re: Scientific American‘s 10 World-Changing Ideas for 2011

Md. Arifurrahman — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:20:03 -0000

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Re: Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence

Trapti Paneri — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:26:12 -0000

Hello,
I am completely agree that Artificial has an important role in almost everything which we do today. It has actually acquired almost all the fields including medicine, games, engineering etc. Also one more thing can be added to a long list of its applications is business forecasting and error handling through Artificial Intelligence.

Re: Challenges of the Internet of Things

Techy Ashutosh — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 01:16:44 -0000

What do the military, the Department of Motor Vehicles and a local sheriff's office have in common?

Re: Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence

Ulises — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:24:05 -0000

So, step by step, if intelligent machines take over all human activity (as it is known), including art and science, what will happen to the organic body and its conditioned-to-work-and-think brain? Surely, will it decay? Is mankind-machines coexistence possible while people are fighting for jobs and resources: competition, enterprises, nations, and so on? Anyway, what is the endeavor in which a robot cannot take part or channel at all successfully? Why won't the future automatons be alive? What is the fundamental difference between a mechanical structure, organic or inorganic, that imitates life and life itself? Is there any, virtual or real? If it said that there is a difference, is it just some kind of knowledge-authority who is defining and differentiating between things? Perhaps then, someday, will be a powerful automaton the one who will define life, its unique life, truth itself? Indeed, will he impose his point of view with his outstanding intelligence, a new science? Certainly, will he define where life begin and end too? Therefore, where does death too? Along these lines, there is a peculiar book, a preview in goo.gl/rfVqw6 Just another suggestion, in order to free-think for a while or just to be ignored.

Re: Big Names form Consortium to Improve the Integration of the Physical and Data Worlds

Jessie — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 05:20:28 -0000

Predictive policing through video analytic that can pinpoint likely crimes before they happen, and to deploy emergency response resources on demand. Create transportation systems that can sense and respond to changes in real time. This technology is very much useful.

Re: 2014 Computing Innovation Fellows Workshop: Research, Innovation, Impact

Jessie — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 04:39:02 -0000

That's called the real workshop, such an interesting theme about “Research, Innovation, Impact”. I just think that when this type of workshop would come again?

Re: “Improving Our Depth Perception in Augmented Reality”

Paolo Manzelli — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 05:52:21 -0000

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Re: Computer Science for Non-Majors

Michael Ernst — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:57:38 -0000

There will be a special session at the SIGCSE 2014 conference (March 5-8, Atlanta) about teaching computing to non-majors using real-world data and real-world problems. The special session will take place at 1:45-3:00 on Friday, March 7.

The abstract appears at
https://www.openconf.org/si...
and you can read a 2-page description of the special session at
http://homes.cs.washington....
The approach has been used at 4 colleges and universities, one of which (at the University of Washington) was mentioned in the original CCC blog post:
http://tinyurl.com/dataprog...

Re: Computer Science for Non-Majors

don Francisco — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:48:57 -0000

I think it is great that you took on this challenge. I think it is
great because of necessity it raises a lot of other related questions.

The evolution of the discipline of Computer Science is very different from
that of Mathematics and Statistics but it has dramatically impacted
these and every single other academic discipline in ouir colleges and Universities and the impact of that evolution shows ho sign of slowing down. .

By identifying what a non-major ought to know, you will of necessity have to ask why should a CS major know or not know that same material.

By attempting to know what non CS majors should know we will have to look at what CS programs are teaching today and we will have to ask if they are meeting the Steelman standards which we know many departments are simply not meeting.

We will have to ask if our current CS faculty are up-to-date in the progress that have not only taken place in their own specialties but what they know or do not know has taken place in related CS subject matter areas.

My feeling is that we are very much like the Mathematics departments were at the time right after Sputnik ( 1957) where it was decided that we needed to teach "The New Math" and had to face the fact was we didn't have enough Math teachers who could teach other Math teachers and bring them up to date.

It is the general opinion of those working in both industry and academia that some of our CS based industry has left academia in the dust. Many of our best CS faculty are doing important and supposedly financially rewarding research but the teaching strength of our departments has declined because of the emphasis on paying research. More research is needed here.

I will watch what these trailblazers are about with great interest
.

Re: “The Role of the Cloud in the Smart Grid”

Tomoiaga Bogdan — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 03:06:19 -0000

Interesting indeed. What about a Pareto based approach? ... like in this paper: www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/6/3/1439/pdf

Re: Why aren’t more girls interested in computer science?

David Koelle — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:30:52 -0000

If one of the gaps is "girls typically prefer more practical and social activities," then "make computer science a core requirement" is not a solution to that problem. The software engineering side of computer science is extremely practical, and everything from social media to mobile applications for disaster relief and connecting to other people is very social. And as a career, computer scientists in the right job do a lot of engagement with other people - users!

Yes, students would have to learn abstract things like finite state machines and lambda calculus and recursion along the way, but I doubt these are what turn girls away from computer science.

Focus on the extremely strong practical, social, and people-oriented aspects of computing. Break the stereotypes that might have been true in the 1970's but are vastly different today.

Re: Why aren’t more girls interested in computer science?

Mark Smith — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:09:01 -0000

I see this issue coming up on a weekly basis. I think this is a lot simpler than typically is presented, but then I tend to see things from a supply/demand perspective.

It's like this. People that really excel at computers tend to be aspy. Aspy people are enamored of abstractions; it's a natural fit. And aspy people are skewed toward males.

It isn't a stereotype if the skew is in the population. I suspect the entire gap is due to this skew.

It would be good to attempt a study that controls for aspy, but I haven't seen one; until then, I think it's best to ignore the noise--especially from those who suggest mandates. "Training more teachers" seems to me to be a particularly suspicious request--after all, the boys don't seem to need more teachers to be trained, do they?