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1 month ago | 
cacm.acm.org | Jeremy Roschelle |Shuchi Grover |Sam Greengard
Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute recently, former Governor Asa Hutchinson shared his experience in bringing coding skills to students throughout the state of Arkansas. Declaring “coding is basic,” Gov. Hutchinson led the charge to engage teachers throughout the state. Through those teachers, opportunities to learn coding became available to students statewide. In Gov.
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1 month ago | 
cacm.acm.org | Karen Emslie |Shuchi Grover |Sandrine Ceurstemont
The exponential growth of big data has powered a multitude of technology innovations. Yet, it was the mass adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) that pushed large language models (LLMs), built on enormous volumes of data, into the public consciousness.
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1 month ago | 
cacm.acm.org | Logan Kugler |Shuchi Grover |Sandrine Ceurstemont |Alex Vakulov
In November 2024, voters in the U.S. elected Donald Trump to a second, non-consecutive term as the nation’s 47th President. Given U.S. prominence in the world, and the strong executive powers of the President, Trump and his administration will have a massive impact on everything from national security to the economy to the tenor of civic discourse—both inside and outside America. One area of impact being watched especially closely by policy experts: computer science.
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1 month ago | 
cacm.acm.org | Shuchi Grover |Sandrine Ceurstemont |Alex Vakulov |David Geer
Like many in the K-12 CSEd community, I‘ve been reflecting on the changing landscape of computing—and coding—education in the age of Generative AI (GenAI). I have shared these evolving thoughts in recent presentations and keynote addresses (including a couple in India, at IISc Bangalore and IIT Gandhinagar in December 2024).
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Joel Adams |Alex Williams |Saurabh Bagchi |Shuchi Grover
The second week of each December, Computer Science Education Week introduces K-12 students to computer science. This timing was chosen to commemorate the birthday of Grace Murray Hopper, December 9, 1906. Rear Admiral Hopper is well known to the CS community for her many contributions to computing. For those who never saw her, I recommend her 1986 television appearance on ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ where her personality shines through.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Alex Williams |Saurabh Bagchi |Shuchi Grover
Many developers and project managers focus on building functional code and shipping products rapidly, while overlooking the importance of maintaining detailed, precise, and comprehensive documentation. However, robust documentation plays a pivotal role in ensuring the long-term success of software projects.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Esther Shein |Saurabh Bagchi |Shuchi Grover |Logan Kugler
There are things in life that are subjective, like beauty, taste, emotions, and feelings. However, when it comes to judging in competitive sports, decisions have become a lot more cut and dried, thanks to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Several sports organizations have been using AI to judge certain aspects of their competitions and games for years, but as the systems become more sophisticated, more are jumping on the bandwagon.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | George Neville-Neil |Saurabh Bagchi |Shuchi Grover |Logan Kugler
Dear KV, A recent small project at work required me to use JavaScript, and I was surprised to find the following note in the documentation (see https://bit.ly/3Bz3hC0) for a code that sets a timeout: “Also note that if the value isn’t a number, implicit type coercion is silently done on the value to convert it to a number—which can lead to unexpected and surprising results; see Non-number delay values are silently coerced into numbers for an example.” It is commonly accepted that languages...
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Saurabh Bagchi |Shuchi Grover |Logan Kugler
The mobile app Google Play Store and the Apple App Store are the gifts that keep on giving to Google and Apple, respectively. [I will use the lower-case “app stores” to refer to the generic portals, while capital case will refer to the specific one from Apple.] They generate revenue for the duopoly of Google and Apple through the fees assessed from all app developers for all in-app purchases, subscriptions, or paid downloads.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Shuchi Grover
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