The OpenAI CEO reversed his own dire predictions about AI and employment, but layoffs keep coming.

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How a handful of Michigan grad students launched the modern movement to save the Earth.

Over the last decade, new research has shown how human collectives can develop technologies that no single individual could discover on their own. How…

My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some updates when I wrote about our SIGCSE 2025 pa…

Two invited talks and a PhD defence at the IT University of Copenhagen, March 13, 2026.

This is policy wonk stuff, but I find policy fascinating. As a researcher, it’s hard to figure out “How are most people (students, faculty, whatever) in this field thinking about X?&#82…

Some of my research colleagues in Germany have recently published a fascinating paper that compares countries in Europe and the type of content they include in their computing or informatics curriculu...

This week, we've published a paper called 'What We Talk About When We Talk About K-12 Computing Education’ that looks at why we teach computing in school. Find out more about the different views on th...

Some of you may remember the Apple ads that emphasized the computer as a “bicycle for the mind.” (From GenAI is not like a bicycle for the mind. Instead, it’s more like an automobile. I’m finding t…

I have written several blog posts about the different ways to implement Media Computation in introductory programming courses. We built JES at Georgia Tech in 2002 and the final release was in 2020…

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My planned activity during my sabbatical was to revise my 2015 book “Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education.” One of the fixes I wanted to make was a better definition of what “learner-cent…

During our sabbatical, Barb and I spent a week in Auckland. We gave talks at the Auckland University of Technology and University of Auckland. Alison Clear (past Chair of the SIGCSE Board) and Tony…

“You can observe a lot by just watching.” – Yogi Berra I had a couple of amazing experiences that made me think about how little we see each other teach and how much can be gained…

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In May, Tamara Nelson-Fromm defended her dissertation “A Qualitative Exploration of Programming Instruction for Alternative Endpoints in Post-Secondary Computing Education.” I’ve talked about Tamar…

I stopped blogging while I was on sabbatical because I had to focus on finishing the second edition of Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education. And then we came back from sabbatical. I’d hea…

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A guest post from U-M’s Rebecca Quintana.

Nobel recognizes Mokyr’s theory on sustained economic growth

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You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Luca Chiodini on Monday 25 August 2025 at 13:30 in room D0.02 (USI East Campus) / online. Abstract: An increasingly wider and more d...

There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.