COMPUTING EDUCATION

Computing Education: Beyond the Classroom

Mark Guzdial , Georgia Tech 

Betsy DiSalvo , Georgia Tech

Computing is the new literacy, and teaching computing in a world where computers are ubiquitous demands new techniques and contexts for learning. As these evolve, so too will the student profile.

Article Contents

IN THIS ISSUE Download Citation ASCII Text BibTex RefWorks Procite/RefMan Download Content DOWNLOAD PDF PDFs Require Adobe Acrobat

JNA AWARD 2013

JNA Awards 2013 Honours Jewellery Industry Pioneers as Recipients

 HONG KONG, Sept. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- 

Leung Sik Wah and Wallace Chan led 16 recipients of the second annual JNA Awards at a ceremony and gala dinner on September 12, 2013 attended by almost 500 industry luminaries at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Hong Kong. 

Organised by JNA (Jewellery News Asia), the JNA Awards honours the innovators and leaders of the jewellery trade, and is one of the industry's most important and much-anticipated night. 

NEW FORMULA MATH

     Math targets cities' essence

New formula relates city size to infrastructure, productivity...

     By Rachel Ehrenberg

              Web edition: September 12, 2013   

     

The notion that cities are all alike borders on blasphemy. Residents of the world’s great metropolises, from New York to London to Tokyo, speak of their homes as of a first love or old friend. But decades of analyses hint that cities, mathematically speaking, might actually all be the same. Now for the first time, those observations have been tidily and elegantly drawn together into a formula that describes what a city is.

EARTH

Buried Saharan rivers might have been early expressways
 Humans might have migrated across the arid region along three once-lush waterways

     By Erin Wayman

Web edition: September 12, 2013  

   

         Three rivers now interred beneath heaps of sand in the Sahara Desert might have been the superhighways of the Stone Age.

Simulations reveal that the rivers, each about as big as the Missouri or Rhine River, meandered across the Sahara 125,000 years ago. Early humans probably followed the lush corridors as migration routes across North Africa, scientists propose September 11 in PLOS ONE.