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  <title><![CDATA[Roberts on Making Computer Science Fun Again, 4pm 4/24, ITE 213]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/04/23/Roberts-on-Making-Computer-Science-Fun-Again,-4pm-4/24,-ITE-213/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Professor Eric  Roberts of Stanford will talk tomorrow (4:00pm Thur 24 April, 231 ITE) on Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe: Making Computing Fun Again.  He's well known as a master teacher and his his insights into teaching computer science will well worth hearing.  Here is the abstract for his talk.


Has anyone considered the possibility that it's just not fun any more?  -- Don Knuth, October 2006

Over the last five years, computing education in most developed countries...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-04-23</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[College Board eliminates AP computer science AB test]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[See update below.

The College Board has decided to eliminate their Advanced Placement test in computer science.  It's well known that the number of university students choosing computer science as a major has been declined significantly in the past six years.  Many organizations, including the the Computing Research Association, have developed strategies to address this by enlarging the pipeline.  A part of this is working to increase interest in the field in high schools and middle school...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-04-04</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Government predicts growing IT job market]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/02/23/US-Government-predicts-growing-IT-job-market/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The US Bureau of Labor Statistics releases regular projections for changes in demands for different job categories.  The Computing Research Association's blog compares the changes in the BLS predictions for professional-level IT positons and speculated on the factors involved.  
 
 

While the projected growth is slowing, the actual number of predicted new jobs has gone up in the latest report.  Jay Vesco of the CRA comments:

"It would be easy to see the series of lowered growth projec...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-02-23</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[2007 Turing award goes to model checking developers]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/02/05/2007-Turing-award-goes-to-model-checking-developers/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The ACM named Edmund Clarke, E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis winners of the prestigious 2007 A.M. Turing Award for their research on Model Checking.

From the ACM announcement:  "Their innovations transformed this approach from a theoretical technique to a highly effective verification technology that enables computer hardware and software engineers to find errors efficiently in complex system designs. This transformation has resulted in increased assurance that the systems perform as i...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-02-05</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Parsing Perl considered undecidable]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Kegler on perlmonks.org offers a proof that static parsing of Perl programs is undecidable in his post Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof.  The approach is to show that parsing a tricky example (one short line of code!) can be reduced to solving the Halting problem.  Here's a piece of it.


Kennedy's Lemma: If you can parse Perl, you can solve the Halting Problem.

To prove Kennedy's Lemma, we assume that we can parse Perl. In particular this means we can take the following de...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-01-28</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[One Laptop Per Child could make Computer Science more relevant]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/12/29/One-Laptop-Per-Child-could-make-Computer-Science-more-relevant/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Tomorrow's (!) Washington Post has a good article, In Peru, a Pint-Size Ticket to Learning on how the]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-12-29</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lies, Damn Lies, and (the statistics on) the Number of STEM grads]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/12/18/Lies,-Damn-Lies,-and-(the-statistics-on)-the-Number-of-STEM-grads/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[I confess to being thoroughly confused. The revealed wisdom in US higher ed has been that we are simply not producing enough grads in the STEM area, and we need to do more to attract folks to sciences/engineering/IT etc. The National Academy of Sciences weighed in on this as well. We certainly keep hearing that here in our department, with exhortations to increase enrollment.

However, the Urban institute folks (Lowell and Salzman) claim that not only is the US not lagging behind other nati...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-12-18</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Borjas at UMBC]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The well known Labor Economist visited UMBC last week to give a lecture in our humanities series.  Borjas is very well known in political circles for his economic analysis of immigration. More importantly, not only does he write scholarly papers, he actually blogs in a way that folks like me who haven't even done ECON 101 can understand his points. I haven't read any of his papers to see what they look like, but in his blogs he is fairly clear about his opinions on various issues related to i...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-10-11</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Search, Google, and Life according to Sergey Brin]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/10/03/Search,-Google,-and-Life-according-to-Sergey-Brin/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[UC Berkeley is  posting full lecture videos on YouTube at http://youtube.com/ucberkeley.  This includes basic courses on Biology, Chemistry, Literature and Engineering as well as specialized lectures like one by Sergey Brin for SIMS 141 on Search, Google, and Life.  If this is part of a new trend, it will definitely help flatten out the academic world. Check out the SIMS 141 schedule for more videos which have not yet been uploaded to Youtube.  (link)]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-10-03</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[UMBC seeks Dean of Engineering and Information Technology]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2005/11/21/UMBC-seeks-Dean-of-Engineering-and-Information-Technology/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[UMBC is searching for a new Dean of its College of Engineering and Information Technology --  see the UMBC Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology search site.  I am happy to field questions from or talk to anyone who might be interested in applying for the position or nominating a colleague. It's a great opportunity for someone who wants to help shape and guide a strong College that wants toward biger and better things.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-11-21</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[CASCON 2005 Keynote - Rob Clyde @ Symantec]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2005/10/18/CASCON-2005-Keynote---Rob-Clyde-@-Symantec/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Rob Clyde, Vice President of Technology, Office of the CTO @ Symantec Corporation presented his keynote today morning. Along with the usual security stuff he reported on some interesting statistics --

	
Phishing is becoming an increasing threat as 3 to 4% of users respond to such mails -- much higher than traditional e-mail spam.
In the first half of 2005 phishing increased from 2.99 Million e-mails/day to 5.7 Million e-mails/day.
31% of online consumers are buying less due to increased...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-10-18</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sphere -- tuning for the Blogosphere]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2005/10/08/Sphere----tuning-for-the-Blogosphere/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We all know how blog search engines have made themselves a name, by tuning traditional IR techniques to the Blogosphere. Enter Sphere. It is in "stealth mode" now -- not even a Beta. Over at GigaOm,  Om Malik has some interesting thoughts  on Sphere.  Some excerpts -- Think Blog Rank, Instead of Google’s Page Rank. The company has also taken a few steps to out-smart the spammers, and tend to push what seems like spam-blog way down the page. Not censuring but bringing up relevant content fir...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-10-08</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[A new measure of a researcher's impact]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2005/08/29/A-new-measure-of-a-researcher's-impact/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[UCSD Physicist  Jorge Hirsch has proposed the h-index as a new bibliometric measure of a scholar's impact based on the number of publications and how often each is cited. See this story in Physics World for an overview.  H-index can be defined as follows:

A person who has published N papers has h-index H iff they have H papers each of which has at least H citations and N-H papers with fewer than H citations.

You can easily estimate an author's h-index using Google Scholar since the resu...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-08-29</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[US CS Graduate Enrollment Falls in 2003]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2005/08/11/US-CS-Graduate-Enrollment-Falls-in-2003/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The CRA Bulletin has an item on an  NSF brief describing the state of Science and Engineering graduate enrollment.

"While overall graduate enrollment in science and engineering programs reached an all-time high in fall 2003, it actually declined 3 percent in computer science. CS was the only field to see a drop and this was its first decrease since 1995. In addition, CS experienced the biggest drop (23 percent) among S&E fields in the number of full-time students with temporary visas who w...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-08-11</dc:date>
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