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Sisterhood of CS
By wolfmurphyPosted October 24th 20113
It might seem a bit ironic me being bursting with pride at being a member of a sisterhood, what with me being a guy who never even had a sister, but I am. The Sisterhood of CS is the fifth Computer Science club for which I am advisor. Perhaps being advisor means I am not really a member, but you ...
Graceful Enhancement
By wolfmurphyPosted September 16th 20110
Matt Wolf and I were walking from our hotel to IDF 2011 this morning and we were talking about various architectures and what we each preferred. Matt described his perception and I said that sounds like graceful enhancement and he said ...
Math flies like the wind
By wolfmurphyPosted September 14th 20110
I was preparing a post on algorithmic patterns and how they aid the process of being able to solve computational problems using paallel techniques when I came across the iPod version of Math flyer. Math and ...
Paper Parallel and the Thousand dear Courses
By wolfmurphyPosted September 14th 20111
Paper Mario was pretty popular and I think the upcoming special issue of ACM Transactions on Computing Education will also be pretty popular, especially since it will be focused on Concurrent, Parallel and Distributed Computation. We are at a cusp where there is a great amount of productive churn ...
Paper Parallel and the Thousand dear Courses
By wolfmurphyPosted September 14th 20110
Paper Mario was pretty popular and I think the upcoming special issue of ACM Transactions on Computing Education will also be pretty popular, especially since it will be focused on Concurrent, Parallel and Distributed Computation. We are at a cusp where there is a great amount of productive ...
Paper Parallel and the Thousand dear Courses
By wolfmurphyPosted September 14th 20110
Paper Mario was pretty popular and I think the upcoming special issue of ACM Transactions on Computing Education will also be pretty popular, especially since it will be focused on Concurrent, Parallel and Distributed Computation. We are at a cusp where there is a great amount of productive ...
Parallel Educational Appliance: Once upon a Mattress
By wolfmurphyPosted May 4th 20113
Convergence of good ideas into a coalesced one is normative for this millennia. It has has happened with PDA, camera, phone, and portable game system becoming today's smartphone; which is now converging with touchscreen notepad and keyboard into a next ubiquitous device. This blog post highlights ...
It's a Snap to find the Scratch to BYOB in class
By wolfmurphyPosted March 29th 20111
Sure I knew my friend Dan Garcia has been working to re-establish the joy and beauty of computer science to a whole new generation. And yeah, talking with enthusiastic Dan convinced inspired me to develop a parallel class at my ...
Half Empty Dream Cup of Concrete Roses
By wolfmurphyPosted February 1st 20111
Paul Steinberg's Black History month blog post about dreams propelled me to write my first blog post in over a year. My initial urge was to lament the struggle in retaining and reaching Black males in Computer Science. My ...
Think Globally, Act Locally: or Display Links that Tap into the educational Orchard
By wolfmurphyPosted March 17th 20104
"MEN WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS." These were Ernest Shackleton's words advertising for crew to accompany him on his adventure to the South Pole. If we ...

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