This looks pretty cool!
Author Archives: Stacey Armstrong
CS and Biology
DNA – Finding Potential Cancer Suspects
Computer Science is providing the platform for some amazing research and breakthroughs.
CS News – IT Jobs
It seems our students do not have access to this type of information.
I share these articles in class weekly and so many of my students, many of whom are very well informed, seem to have never seen any of this.
Kodu and SmallBasic
Kodu – Visual Programming Environment
I had a chance to see this live in the spring and it was very impressive.
SmallBasic – an update of a classic
I have this on my laptop and my 8 year old really likes making the turtle do tricks.
He also really enjoys writing code in Scratch and Alice.
I am not on the Microsoft payroll – it just happened that I thought to post about two MS products today.
CS News – Hot Jobs in CS / Healthcare
High Tech /Healthcare – Hot Jobs
Why is that so many people seem to not know this?
I read this same information weekly and yet most people know nothing about this information.
CS News – Robotics and more
Wearable Robotics – Much better than leg warmers!
Robots from moulds – First it was ice cubes – now robots!
CS News – Robots and Bill Gates
MIT has Robotic Fish – Robots are cool, but robot-fish are way COOL!
What do you if you catch one?
Can Bill Gates stop a Hurricane? – I am not sure, but if he can’t, you now Chuck Norris can!
CS News – Humanoid Robotics
And everyone laughed when the Terminator came out ……
Who is laughing now?
“I’ll be back!”
Finally, hope to save us from the devastation of the Terminator!
CS News – Women and Computing
Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship
This looks like a great opportunity!
More Info
http://gracehopper.org/2009/k-12-computing-teachers-workshop/program-overview-and-agenda/
Here it explains …
“This workshop will convene K-12 teachers who work with under-represented populations of students at the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration …
Each participant will receive travel funding, hotel accommodations and free registration to attend the Grace Hopper Conference and this Workshop. Applications to attend this Workshop are online here.
Deadline to complete the application is September 14th. Decisions will be completed by September 21st, 2009
Here is some more great Grace Hopper content.
Site for new book about Grace Hopper (with links to 60 Minutes interview):
http://www.admiralgracehopper.com/
David Letterman interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57bfxsiVTd4
youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/cistheta2007#play/all/uploads-all/0/CVMhPVInxoE
CS News – CS and Psychology
Cognitive Science – combining the disciplines of Psychology and Computer Science
Using CS Algorithms in Cognitive Science
This is a very cool discipline that also incoporates artificial intelligence.