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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Computing and higher education in Peru
Abstract: In Peru, the computing discipline as an academic field has been neglected during decades deriving in a lowquality higher education system and consequently shaping an acad...
Marco A. Alvarez, José Baiocchi, José...
CCR
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Open issues in organizing computer systems conferences
The Workshop on Organizing Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia for Computer Systems (WOWCS) was organized to "bring together conference organizers (past, present, and future...
Jeffrey C. Mogul, Tom Anderson
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
355views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Why students with an apparent aptitude for computer science don't choose to major in computer science
The statistics show that the number of Computer Science majors is dropping across the United States. Possible reasons include a reduced number of jobs in the field, an incorrect p...
Lori Carter
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Local ambassadors: local action/global impact
This position paper for the CHI2005 Development Consortium introduces the Local Ambassadors Initiative of the User Experience Network (UXnet), a collaborative international vision...
Dirk Knemeyer, Nick Finck, Matteo Penzo
SIGCPR
2005
ACM
66views Hardware» more  SIGCPR 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Who is "the IT workforce"?: challenges facing policy makers, educators, management, and research
Despite over six decades of research on the role and definition of the IT workforce, there remain numerous, and often contradictory, definitions related to the identity of this gr...
Michelle L. Kaarst-Brown, Indira R. Guzman