The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
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Teaching the Nintendo generation to program
Communications of the ACM - Supporting community and building social capital
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Learning surface text patterns for a Question Answering system
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Pair design in undergraduate labs
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
An Introduction to Language
Handling biographical questions with implicature
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters
OSDI'04 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Symposium on Opearting Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 6
CS0++ broadening computer science at the entry level: interdisciplinary science and computer science
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Decompounding query keywords from compounding languages
HLT-Short '08 Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technologies: Short Papers
Learning by reading: a prototype system, performance baseline and lessons learned
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Given declining enrollments in computing, increasing workforce needs for graduates, and changes in the computing education needed in the future, the National Science Foundation launched the Integrated Computing Education and Research (ICER) effort in 2005--6, which resulted in suggestions on how to increase enrollments and improve undergraduate computer science education. These included: multiple entry points to the major, better presentation of computing careers, interdisciplinary courses and projects, and innovative approaches to minors. This paper describes a quarter-long full-time interdisciplinary program for entry-level linguistics and computer science students and entry-level or advanced language students designed to broaden the current curriculum in response to NSF ICER suggestions. The program met several strategic NSFICER directions. Aimed primarily at freshmen and sophomores, the program integrated entry level studies of computer science and linguistics and offered students synthesis opportunities: 1) weekly case studies lab and term project and 2) a lecture and seminar series. This paper describes that program, and suggests how the curricular design and materials could be exported to other institutions as linked courses or an interdisciplinary case study.