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Decline in CS in Scottish Schools: CAS-Scotland 2014 Report #CSEdWeek | Computing Education Blog edit / delete

The analysis here is a bit off, but the report is interesting reading.

to academic admissions cs school scotland teaching ... on 05 January 2015

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » The Power of the Digi-Comp II: My First Conscious Paperlet edit / delete

"I study the Digi-Comp II, a wooden mechanical computer whose only moving parts are balls, switches, and toggles. I show that the problem of simulating (a natural abstraction of) the Digi-Comp, with a polynomial number of balls, is complete for CC (Comparator Circuit)". A nice short example, with some interesting discussion on what the Digi-Comp can and can't compute and why.

to complexity computability cs digicomp mechanica retrocomputing theory ... on 11 July 2014

Welcome to the Evaluate Collaboratory! | Evaluate Collaboratory edit / delete

Tomas and Richard are involved in this project for empirical measurement in CS. Their position paper would be sensible reading for students; it explains some of the common pitfalls of performance measurement.

to ag0803 benchmarking cs empirical performance research statistics ... on 26 March 2014

The Elements of Computing Systems / Nisan & Schocken edit / delete

Companion site.

to ag0700 architecture cs teaching ... on 25 November 2012

Programming and Computation edit / delete

The collaborative compiler, and various other neat ideas.

to compilation cs research ui ... on 08 April 2012

Computational Culture edit / delete

"Computational Culture is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of computational cultural objects, practices, processes and structures." Good target for CoSMoS?

to cosmos cs journal open-access research ... on 25 June 2011

The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Welcome! edit / delete

Neat. Distinctly lacking in Kent people at the moment...

to academia cs history maths phd ... on 30 May 2010

Software Carpentry: Index edit / delete

"Software Carpentry is an intensive introduction to basic software development practices for scientists and engineers." I'd love to teach this...

to cs engineering python science software-engineering teaching ... on 08 February 2010

gmane.comp.java.openjdk.core-libs.devel edit / delete

Two-pivot quicksort. Can this be generalised to N-pivot quicksort (yes), and where's the optimum point for the tradeoff between recursion cost and wrangling pivots?

to algorithm cs quicksort sorting ... on 13 September 2009

Main Page - CERCS Multi-Core Repository edit / delete

Teaching materials (although you can't get at the slides...) from Georgia Tech's Intel-related multicore course.

to concurrency cs multicore multicore-msc teaching ... on 04 May 2009