scholarly journals Engaging Women in Computer Science - Past, Present and Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Scientific Societies ◽  
Gender Diverse

This short paper presents an informal, personal view of factors that may help - or prevent - women to embrace careers in computing. Based on the author's professional and personal experience, it mixes facts with conjectures on how we may work towards a more gender-diverse future, with the help of scientific societies.

scholarly journals ‘Semi-third-day fever’ according to special observations and experiments carried out in the southern countries of Russian Empire. Described by Dr. Iog Mart Minderer in 1770–1772

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 183-191
Author(s):  
Elena V. Volchkova
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Clinical Presentation ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Scientific Societies ◽  
Attentive Reader ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Geographical Characteristics

The article Semi-third-day fever is based on personal experience obtained during the hostilities in the southern regions of the Russian Empire in 17701772 by Doctor Ioannes Mart Minderer, Active State Councilor and companion, correspondent of various scientific societies, and member of the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy. At first glance, the semi-third-day fever described by the author looks completely mysterious, but an attentive reader can solve this puzzle based on a detailed description of the course of the disease by days, clinical symptoms, course options, and most importantly, the climatic and geographical characteristics of the area, which is characterized by the spread of this disease, as well as based on own clinical experience and contemporary literature. The logical chain created by the author is of particular note, as it linked together the clinical presentation, geographical, climatic, and social conditions under which the disease considered develops, which is essentially a prelude to the formation of understanding of the role of environmental factors in the development and spread of various infections. Despite the archaic language of presentation, the article is percepted with great interest and is an example of a deep and comprehensive approach to the material analyzed.

Abstractions All The Way

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subrata Dasgupta
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Creative People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
High Level

Creative people are driven by certain inner forces, inner needs that are part cognitive, part affective. One such force is intellectual curiosity: the need to know or understand. Another compelling drive is dissatisfaction with the status quo. We saw this as the force that impelled Nicklaus Wirth into creating Pascal (Chapter 1, Section 1.7). But few in the emerging computer science community of the first age of computer science epitomized this characteristic more fiercely than Edsger W. Dijkstra. In his case his discontent was with the direction programming had taken in the 1960s. And the strength of his dissat­isfaction was never more evident than in a letter to the editor of the Communications of the ACM in 1968. The practice of communicating new scientific results by their discoverers in the form of compact letters to the editors of scientific journals was, of course, well established in the natural sciences. The British journal Nature (London) had established this tradition right from its inaugural issue in 1869. But in an upstart discipline, as computer science still was, this practice as a means of scientific communication was quite un­usual. (In one of his celebrated handwritten “EWD notes,” Dijkstra, reflecting retrospectively, explained that his short paper was published as a letter to bypass the usual publication pipeline and that the editor who made this decision was Nicklaus Wirth.) Dijkstra had long been concerned with the question of program quality and how one may acquire confidence in the reliability or correctness of a program. But, as the title of the letter— “Goto Statement Considered Harmful”— tells us, the object of his discontent lay in the use of the goto statement— the unconditional branch available in one notation or another in most programming languages, including Algol-like ones. Dijkstra claimed that the quality of the programmers decreased as a function of the frequency of the goto statements in their programs. And so he proposed that the goto should be banished from all high- level programming languages.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence Competencies for Data Science Undergraduate Curricula

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 9746-9747
Author(s):  
Andrea Danyluk ◽  
Scott Buck
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Programs Of Study

In August 2017, the ACM Education Council initiated a task force to add to the broad, interdisciplinary conversation on data science, with an articulation of the role of computing discipline-specific contributions to this emerging field. Specifically, the task force is seeking to define what the computing contributions are to this new field, in order to provide guidance for computer science or similar departments offering data science programs of study at the undergraduate level. The ACM Data Science Task Force has completed the initial draft of a curricular report. The computing-knowledge areas identified in the report are drawn from across computing disciplines and include several sub-areas of AI. This short paper describes the overall project, highlights AI-relevant areas, and seeks to open a dialog about the AI competencies that are to be considered central to a data science undergraduate curriculum.

scholarly journals Long Term Variceal Sclerotherapy: Is Endoscopic Sclerosis a Unique Therapeutic Approach and a True Alternative to Surgery?

HPB Surgery ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
K-J. Paquet ◽  
A. Lazar ◽  
W. Rambach
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Conservative Therapy ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Oesophageal Varices ◽  
Endoscopic Sclerotherapy ◽  
Variceal Haemorrhage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Endoscopic Sclerosis ◽  
True Alternative

Endoscopic sclerotherapy has been used to control acute variceal haemorrhage which persists despite conservative therapy, prevent recurrent variceal haemorrhage in patients with a history of oesophageal haemorrhage, and to prevent a haemorrhage in patients with oesophageal varices who never bled.In this short paper I will cover our personal experience with more than 2000 patients receiving particularly paravariceal endoscopic sclerotherapy of bleeding esophageal varices, and especially present the results of our prospective and controlled randomized trials (Table 1) and underline the thesis that endoscopic sclerotherapy and surgical procedures for patients with portal hypertension are complementary supporting measures or options.

scholarly journals Software Engineering

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Ernst Denert
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Young People ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Newspaper Article ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Excellent Quality ◽  
Engineering Discipline

Abstract“A Passion for Software-Engineering.” This was the headline of a 2015 newspaper article about Ernst Denert. And they were absolutely right. Ernst Denert is really passionate about developing software with excellent quality in a predictable and systematic style. Furthermore, he is very much interested in encouraging young people to study computer science or at least to learn how programming and digitalization works, as well as computer science students to focus on software engineering principles and software development. This chapter is a personal view of Ernst Denert on the software engineering discipline.

Computer science in Russia: a personal view

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.V. Klimenko
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Science In Russia

scholarly journals Table of Contents

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-138
Author(s):  
Marcelo Antonio Pavanello ◽  
Fernanda Kastensmidt
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Science Teaching ◽  
Scientific Societies ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Teaching Research

The Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems (JICS) is a publication from SBMicro – Brazilian Microelectronics Society and SBC – Brazilian Computer Society whose are non-profit scientific societies aiming to foster the microelectronics and computer science teaching, research and development.

Abstraction, indirection, and Sevareid's Law: Towards benign computing

First Monday ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barath Raghavan
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Normal Mode ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Science Practice ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Design Options ◽  
Society Today

Computing is one of the primary means by which we solve problems in society today. In this short paper we examine the implications of the primary techniques used in computer systems work — abstraction and indirection — and of Sevareid’s Law, an epigram that suggests that our problem-solving instinct may be leading us astray. We explore the context of this dilemma and discuss instances in which this has arisen in the recent past. We then consider a few design options and changes to the normal mode of computer science practice that might enable us to sidestep the implications of Sevareid’s Law.

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