Cystorm Supercomputer – 28.16 trillion calculations per second
Author Archives: Stacey Armstrong
CS News – Robotics
CS News – First Day of School
If you are in need of some videos to show the real world use of Computer Science, take a look at the UW site.
http://www.cs.washington.edu/WhyCSE
If you are in need of some great US Department of Labor Data, check out the ACM EPC site.
http://www.acm.org/public-policy/education-policy-committee
If you are looking for a new high-tech presentation format instead of powerpoint, take a look at Slide Rocket and Cool Iris.
http://www.sliderocket.com/
http://www.cooliris.com/
CS News – Phones in Class
Use phones to respond to questions in class – polleverywhere.com
It makes more sense to incorporate the use of the phone than to fight it.
CS Link – Women in CS and Engineering
Gerald Oberg sent me an email with the following information.
“Profile: Yoky Matsuoka” from last night – Aug 19
This episode doesn’t mention CS explicitly, but it is clearly used in the projects shown.
I thought it was good for promoting the idea that women can and should do math/science/cs.
I thought it was good for promoting the idea that women can and should do math/science/cs.
CS News – STEM Education
CS News – Computer Science and the Humanities
Computer Science and the Humanities
Computer Science is being used to help decode ancient texts.
CS News – Creative College Intro Courses
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/news/cso.pdf
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs39N/fa09/
http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~mlittman/courses/cs105-08/
Both of these courses use Scratch and cover some really cool CS topics.
The focus is not 100% on just programming, but more focused on how CS affects the world around us.
I think more high school intro CS courses would better serve students if they would follow suit.
CS News – DNA / Cancer
Computer Science is helping accelerate the rate of breakthroughs in areas like Cancer research.