Dan Reed has posted an interesting article both on his blog and on the Computing Research Policy Blog about the many problems in computing education. Ever since the dotcom bubble burst, computer science enrollment at universities has declined and even more so for women. So many ideas have been tossed around out there, trying to [...]
Archive for 11 February 2008
Future of Computing Education
Posted: 11 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: college, computer science, computing education, computing research, dan reed, robert dewar, universities
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What’s the information need, Kenneth?
Posted: 11 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: google, information needs, information retrieval, library science, queries, search engines, structured queries, web search
When you go to a search engine, you have an information need. There is something you are searching for that you can only articulate imprecisely and you do so in a few words. People are good at determining if something satisfies their information need, but not so great at stating it clearly. Librarians are trained [...]
Sweaterbee
Posted: 11 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: cold, dog clothing, dog sweaters, dogs, pittsburgh, sweaters, winter
It is about 11 degrees Fahrenheit (-11.7 Celsius) with a wind chill of -1 (-18.3) degrees here in Pittsburgh at the moment. As such, the dogs should get sweaters, right? Well, Willow doesn’t really need it. She loves the cold, but she’s cute in it anyway.
