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Neil Deaton Jones, professor emeritus at DIKU, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, passed away March 27th, 2023, shortly after his 82nd birthday. He is remembered for his seminal contributions to programming language ...

Accidents tend to be traumatic events that one would rather forget than remember. Software testing novices at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, on the contrary, rewind the past and learn how to safeguard the future.

In this paper we will present ...

Storyspace, introduced at the first ACM Workshop on Hypertext in 1987, was developed as a hypertext system for exploring creative writing and for writing instruction. Uniquely among systems of that era, Storyspace continues in use today, and Storyspace ...

This paper describes a hardware lab where computer science students build a computer from scratch on a breadboard. The design is inspired by hobbyist-built 1970s computers, such as the Altair, and the finished computer runs the original Altair BASIC. ...

Introducing programming concepts to a broad audience is critical both as an entry point for wider computer science participation and for exposure and technical literacy at an introductory undergraduate level. A historical perspective on the field of ...

Computing education, in the sense we know it today, was born in the first half of the 1950s with the advent of mass-produced storedprogram computers [15]. Programming, using a vocabulary of a few dozen machine language commands in octal code, was not ...

The utopian optimism about democracy and the internet has given way to disillusionment. At the same time, given the complexity of today's wicked problems, the need for democracy is critical. Unfortunately democracy is under attack around the world, and ...

Ephraim McLean served as editor-in-chief for The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems for eight years. He served in this role with two different co-editors-in-chief, Detmar Straub and Mark Keil. As one of the founding members of the Association ...

This article offers a historical overview of the middle years of publishing The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems in the context of the evolution of the field of Management Information Systems. The journey of the editor-in-chief during these ...

New media were meant to augment our abilities and to liberate our understanding. We dreamed of fast access to unbounded libraries, of university-level courses delivered at minuscule cost to remote villages, of access to tools. We envisioned new literary ...

If we have not yet achieved planetary super-villainy on the desktop, it may be feasible to fit it into a suburban office suite. Social media and Web science permit the modern villain to deploy traditional cruelties to great and surprising effect. ...

Our slaves of steel [4] explored some moral questions that arise from narrative with persistent digital agents. If we propose to her on the holodeck, can Ophelia conceivably consent to marry us? Here, we propose simple audio agents that are well within ...

This poster summarizes the product of the author/s 2016 ACM SIGCSE Special Projects grant. The author created a Reacting to the Past (RTTP) historical role-playing game entitled "Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and the Dawn of Computing." According to ...

Understanding how to increase participation and continued persistence of women in computing is a perennial problem. This paper explores the ways in which participation in computing can be defined either by a narrow disciplinary practice framework or a ...

Storyspace was introduced in one of the first papers presented at the first ACM Workshop of Hypertext, and gave rise to a number of significant hypertexts, both fiction and nonfiction. A new implementation of Storyspace for contemporary computing ...

This study investigated the effects of teaching history of computing with videos of historical figures. Augmented reality (AR) techniques were applied to assist student accessing the videos of historical figures while reading a printed textbook. ...

A summary of articles published in Computer 32 and 16 years ago.

The change that software has wrought is a change to how we organize ourselves. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/ORmYnEm53LE is a video in which author David Alan Grier expands on his Errant Hashtag column, discussing how the change that software has ...

Nathaniel Borenstein describes how mail evolved from plaintext to multimedia. The first Web extra at http://youtu.be/LOUqh5xw99w is a video interview in which author Charles Severance speaks with Nathaniel Borenstein about how email evolved from ...

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