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October 2010

China Leaps into Supercomputing Lead

October 28, 2010/In: American Competitiveness Initiative, R&D in the Press, Research /by Peter Harsha

Numerous news reports suggest that China’s Tianhe-1 supercomputer will top the newest ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers when the list is released tomorrow. It’s not the first time that a non-U.S. machine has led the rankings — the Japanese NEC Earth Simulator led the list as recently as November 2004 — but it does […]

Is CS Education Running on Empty?

October 6, 2010/In: Computing Community Consortium (CCC), Computing Education, CRA, Diversity in Computing, Events, General /by MelissaNorr

ACM and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) today released an exhaustive report on the state of CS education at the K-12 level and their conclusion is…well, it’s not good. The computing community used the occasion to announcing a new coalition, called Computing in the Core, targeted at addressing the problem. My colleague Erwin Gianchandani […]