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BIRTHDAY
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Why Sets?
Sets play a key role in foundations of mathematics. Why? To what extent is it an accident of history? Imagine that you have a chance to talk to mathematicians from a far-away plane...
Andreas Blass
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Innovating our self image
ion." These images do not foster collaboration with other fields and do not excite the curiosity of young people. In this session, Astrachan and Denning will discuss what they...
Owen L. Astrachan, Peter J. Denning
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
143views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Thinking about computational thinking
Jeannette Wing’s call for teaching Computational Thinking (CT) as a formative skill on par with reading, writing, and arithmetic places computer science in the category of basic...
James J. Lu, George H. L. Fletcher
CCS
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of internet miscreants
This paper studies an active underground economy which specializes in the commoditization of activities such as credit card fraud, identity theft, spamming, phishing, online crede...
Jason Franklin, Adrian Perrig, Vern Paxson, Stefan...
CANDC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Computational and cognitive infrastructures of stigma: empowering identity in social computing and gaming
Computing technologies such as games, social networking sites, and virtual environments often reproduce forms of social stigma encountered in everyday real life, as well as introd...
D. Fox Harrell