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Arguing in a way that responding challenges my thinking

October 4, 2012

Jeffrey Bardzell makes some really interesting points in his recent discussion on the nature of peer reviewing of argument papers. I agree with his approach to reviewing essays, but that is not why I’m writing this post. Jeffrey argues that we should look beyond the usual normative criteria to judge argument/essay papers: Do I agree […]

Of behavioural wedges and spillovers

September 21, 2012

In the New Zealand Parliament yesterday the Associate Minister for Climate Change Issues Simon Bridges repeatedly answered Kennedy Graham’s questions about worsening scientific evidence with answers about protecting NZ jobs (video). Only when the economy improves, he said, could we look at changes so long as they didn’t affect NZ jobs. In other words, the […]

A wishlist for sustainable computing?

July 21, 2011

Last week we won the CITRENZ Award for Research for our paper “A research framework for sustainable software“. In this paper we propose a Sustainable Lens as the basis for a research agenda. This Sustainable Lens could be an actual augmented reality headset, or it might be a way of describing how we see the […]

Desire unmatched by skills equals disempowerment for computing students

July 20, 2010

At the CITRENZ conference last week Dobrila and Mike Lopez presented an interesting paper on sustainability worldviews of incoming students at Manukau Institute of Technology (pdf). Their paper aimed to replicate our study of Otago Polytechnic students (summarised in post “Can’t rely on geeks” here, from original paper). This replication aimed to cement the generalisability […]

Look out for new slogan: “Computing empowers you to do good”

June 3, 2009

Despite strong career prospects, computing education continues to suffer low student intakes and the rates for women are crazy low (Taulbee report). “Something is wrong with perceptions of computing” can be heard around the halls of every campus and computing conference. The truth may be that something is wrong with computing. There’s a report […]