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	<title>A Personal Pantagraph &#187; Computers</title>
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	<description>Prognostications, Epiphanies, and Banalities</description>
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		<title>Architecture in a Box</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Programming used to be about moving bits, so programmers memorized the power of 2 and ASCII or EBCDIC.  Then it was about control flow, and programmers learned how to loop over an input deck and perform an operation for each element of the deck (and how to handle the pesky EOF case, which may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Quest for Saint Aquin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How could we get it more wrong!  Recently, I&#8217;ve been reading or rereading classic science fiction stories.  And I ran into The Quest for Saint Aquin, a short story by Anthony Boucher that first appeared in 1951.  Although not evident at first, the story has all to do with robots and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The YUI Widgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to build a rich web application, with full support for Ajax and other Web 2.0 buzzwords, use the Dojo Toolkit.  I&#8217;ve been so happy with it that I haven&#8217;t really looked at any other JavaScript frameworks in a while.  But recently I developed a web application, and my wife took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Digital Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, featured a panel by librarians discussing the future of libraries.  This was an eye-opening panel.  Who would have thought librarians could be so passionate?  And that they had such large axes to grind against school administrators and local governments.  But what concerns me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case for Computer Science in a Liberal Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We both know that every department would like to have one or two courses required of all freshmen.  Where would the Department of English be without English Composition, or Mathematics without Calculus?  So I don&#8217;t blame you for being skeptical when you hear me, a professor of Computer Science, making the case for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Prepares Students for Industry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second in a series of entries regarding the future of computer science education.  In the previous entry, I talked about what the purpose of computer science education is, and I concluded that it was important to start from the bottom up; i.e., by considering what the students want out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Computer Science Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 00:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of entries regarding the future of computer science education.  This is something I care about deeply, and I&#8217;ve been spurred by conversations with colleagues across the nation.  The NSF is concerned about the we are educating future computer scientists, and they have been holding town hall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why CS Majors Should Have Minors</title>
		<link>http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~ruben/blog/2006/03/why-cs-majors-should-have-minors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first generation of computer scientists weren&#8217;t.  They came from engineering, mathematics, physics, and other disciplines.  And they brought their problems with them!  A &#8220;computer scientist&#8221; could apply computer skills to engineering or math or physics and still be a computer scientist.  As the discipline of computer science has grown, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AppleScript and the Unix Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a longtime Unix user, I have enjoyed working in an environment carefully built around small tools that do one job well and that can be combined easily to the task at hand.  For example, as part of a mail server migration I recently had to move email files from a Windows 2003 POP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8220;Recentering Computer Science&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~ruben/blog/2006/01/on-recentering-computer-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~ruben/blog/2006/01/on-recentering-computer-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The November 2005 issue of the Communications of the ACM includes a provocative article by Peter Denning and Andrew McGettrick on &#8220;Recentering Computer Science.&#8221;  This article responds to the declining enrollment in computer science by offering a startling suggestion: Use &#8220;innovation&#8221; as the central theme of computing.  While I agree with innovation as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Explorer, Evil Incarnate</title>
		<link>http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~ruben/blog/2005/12/internet-explorer-evil-incarnate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are viewing this post in the first page of my blog, you will see a navigation sidebar on the right-hand side.   My blog, of course, is based on WordPress&#8217; default style, with some modifications (mostly in CSS, a few in the output templates) to make it look like the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Complexity of Java</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Java has a well-deserved reputation for complexity, but it did not start out this way.  In the beginning, Java flourished in part because it was so much simpler to write programs in Java than in the alternatives, e.g., C++.  Garbage collection, collection classes, simple database API, sane networking API, and a simplified threading [...]]]></description>
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