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As America debates how to get through these tough economic times, research funding for science and engineering may get lost in the clamor. Here are some suggestions about what you can do.

Does it help to bring computers into the classroom? So far, there seems to be little evidence that it does.

Use of the word "computer" conjures certain images. One of them, so deeply ingrained that we rarely question it, is that computing is digital. The alternative, analog computing, has a long and illustrious history, and hybrid (digital and analog) computing may be one way to address challenges on the frontier of device physics, computer architecture and software.

Are computer scientists hypercritical? Are we more critical than scientists and engineers in other disciplines? Some numbers from the National Science Foundation support the claim that we are hypercritical.

The United Kingdom is stepping up its efforts to improve computing education in schools. 

Stanford University has very visibly started pushing mass teaching in AI,  machine learning, and databases.

Publication is about helping the advancement of humankind. Let us take this basis for granted and look at the other, possibly less glamorous aspects. Publication has four modes: Publicity; Exam; Business; and Ritual.

On the social networking obsession among U.K. students: It's the very air they breathe.

The U.K. research assessment framework will discriminate against female researchers. We can't afford to lose more women from CS research!

Why do we, as researchers and practitioners, have this deep and abiding love of computing? Why do we compute? I suspect it is a deeper, more primal yearning, one that underlies all of science and engineering and that unites us in a common cause. It is the insatiable desire to know and understand.

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Are we malevolent grumps? Nothing personal, but as a community computer scientists sometimes seem to succumb to negativism.

A brief discussion of ideas management software used by the U.K. government.

Last week's ICER 2011 conference was a smashing success.  We learned how students believe in a "Geek gene," where students work on their programs, how to make compilers more friendly, how demonstrations can lead students astray, and how confusion is an indication of understanding.

We rely on online information sources--maybe too much. What is our responsibility to make sure that they're accurate, and what responsibility do the sources have to us?

Based on recent interviews with 12 year olds about careers in computing, I argue that if we want to evaluate programs that encourage young people to study computing, we need a shared vocabulary of computing concepts.

Based on recent interviews with twelve year olds about careers in computing, I argue that if we want to evaluate programmes which encourage young people to study computing, we need a shared vocabulary of computing concepts.