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Friday, August 28, 2015

Repost: Incentivizing Active Learning in the Computer Science Classroom

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Studies have shown that using active learning techniques improve student learning and engagement.  Anecdotally, students have brought up the...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Course Design Series (Post 2 of N): Choosing a Textbook

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Having now read both Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition and Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition) , I have settled o...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

PhD Defense Yacin Nadji - Understanding DNS-based Criminal Infrastructure for Informing Takedowns

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Yacin Nadji , a PhD candidate in security at Georgia Tech, successfully defended his dissertation work today. How does one disable a botne...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Conference Attendance FCRC - Day 5 - Plenary Summary

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Plenary Talk today, which pulls together all of the conference attendees.  Sunday's talk was based in databases, with Michael Stonebrake...

Conference Attendance FCRC - Day 4 - PLDI

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PLDI starts off this morning with Concurrency.  As a student volunteer, I worked this session and was limited as to what I could note about ...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Conference Attendance FCRC - Day 3 - PLDI / ISCA

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PLDI itself began this morning and after the welcome, we had three distinguished papers.  I am excited that two of these works focused on co...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Conference Attendance FCRC - Day 1 - WCAE / SPAA

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In Portland for the next 5 days attending the Federated Computing Research Conference, which is a vast co-location of the top ACM conference...