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SIGCSE
2003
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Creating a computer science canon: a course of "classic" readings in computer science
Computer science has a reputation of being a discipline in a perpetual state of accelerated progress—a discipline in which our techniques, our hardware, our software systems, an...
Michael Eisenberg
HICSS
2003
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
On the Limits of Bottom-Up Computer Simulation: Towards a Nonlinear Modeling Culture
1 In the complexity and simulation communities there is growing support for the use of bottom-up computer-based simulation in the analysis of complex systems. The presumption is th...
Kurt A. Richardson
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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14 years 2 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
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Computing in context: integrating an embedded computing project into a course on ethical and societal issues
A hands-on embedded computing project is introduced into an undergraduate social sciences course. In the pilot module, nine student teams created working prototypes, using the tec...
Fred G. Martin, Sarah Kuhn
CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Complexity and Philosophy
The science of complexity is based on a new way of thinking that stands in sharp contrast to the philosophy underlying Newtonian science, which is based on reductionism, determinis...
Francis Heylighen, Paul Cilliers, Carlos Gershenso...