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View all- Bell TVahrenhold J(2018)CS Unplugged—How Is It Used, and Does It Work?Adventures Between Lower Bounds and Higher Altitudes10.1007/978-3-319-98355-4_29(497-521)Online publication date: 9-Aug-2018
Reaching out to the media: become a computer science ambassador
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Why computer scientists should come out from "behind the scenes" more often and work with the media to draw public attention to their fundamental innovations.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science: AAAS. The AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology has partnered with the National Science Foundation to provide resources for scientists and engineers, both online and through in-person workshops to help researchers communicate more broadly with the public; http://communicatingscience.aaas.org/Pages/newmain.aspx
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Bell, T., Witten, I., Fellows, M. Computer Science Unplugged; csunplugged.org.
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Carrada, G. Communicating Science: A Scientist's Survival Kit, a 75-page guide to successful communications published by the European Commission Directorate-General for Research, 2006; ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/science-communication/index_en.htm
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Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 09142: Preventing the Brainware Crisis; http://www.dagstuhl.de/09142.
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Wing, J.M. Computational thinking. Commun, ACM 49, 3 (Mar. 2006), 33--35.
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