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Computer Science Curriculum for 2013 and beyond

What should be in the curriculum for a computer science undergraduate program in the next decade? What knowledge and skills should every CS major learn? What learning objectives should we set? How...

Posted: April 16, 2012, 12:16 PM

Privacy Engineering

We've starting to see advertisements for a new kind of position: privacy engineer. If you've seen the classic movie, The Graduate, you'll remember the conversation that recent college graduate...

Posted: April 14, 2012, 1:40 PM

Privacy Engineering

We've starting to see advertisements for a new kind of position: privacy engineer. If you've seen the classic movie, The Graduate, you'll remember the conversation that recent college graduate...

Posted: April 14, 2012, 1:40 PM

Privacy Engineering

We've starting to see advertisements for a new kind of position: privacy engineer. If you've seen the classic movie, The Graduate, you'll remember the conversation that recent college graduate...

Posted: April 14, 2012, 1:40 PM

Computer Science for the rest of us

An article in the April 1 edition of New York Times, Computer Science for the Rest of Us, mentions UMBC and Marie desJardins. It describes the idea that our notion of literacy should be exapanded...

Posted: March 31, 2012, 8:26 PM

2012 Google Summer of Code program announced

If you have good programming skills and are looking for an interesting alternative to the usual summer internship, you might check out the Google Summer of Code program. It pays student developers...

Posted: February 5, 2012, 12:10 AM

ACM Queue programming challenge

If you’re at loose ends for the semester break and want to sharpen your programming slils, you might try competing in the ACM Queue Magazine online programming competition. You will program a...

Posted: December 20, 2011, 11:58 PM