"Deep" thoughts: do mandatory online activities help students leave surface-learning behind?

As the hiring crisis in academic computer science worsens, many people ask whether faculty whose primary job is teaching need doctorates. In the past, the answer would have been "yes;" now people increasingly suggest that it could be "no." I have argued ...

When I talk about a subject like this one, I find myself discussing a world in which one hand is filled with ill-defined problems while the other hand overflows with solutions in search of a problem, a world in which the only thing wrong with a solution ...

In my mind, one of the biggest problems with PCs today is the quality of the review. The main reason that review quality is often bad is because PCs are overworked. This paper suggests a few ideas for how to reduce the workload on PC members, with a ...