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

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

"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

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

Programming and Computation

The collaborative compiler, and various other neat ideas.

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

Computational Culture

"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!

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

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

Software Carpentry: Index

"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

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

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