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The article presents the author's views on the importance of including computer science as part of the core curriculum in postsecondary education. Topics include the benefits of diversifying the computer science community through interdisciplinary education, a brief history of the high technology industry, and its effect on the current reality. The author offers recommendations for educators to incorporate components of computer science education into their curriculum.

The article discusses efforts to incorporate culturally diverse students in computer science (CS) at U.S. universities and the prevention of database decay by database administrators (DBAs). An overview of underrepresented minority (URM) computer science students in the U.S., including the potential motivating factors that would incorporate women into CS curricula, is provided.

The article discusses teaching computer science to Science and Technology Entry Program students at Union College's Kenney Community Center and the benefits of Jython Environment for Students, the text editing software for Python programming language. Topics include the use of a visual perception card game to analyze how human's solve problems versus how to program computers to solve problems, data representation inside computers, and the use of JES to facilitate programming in Media Computation.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of representing the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and ACM's Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) at the "Ada Lovelace Symposium" held at Oxford University in England.

The article presents a discussion on how men can promote women in computer science and also offers a personal narrative from one of the authors on receiving the Turing Award in computer science. To help women in computing, the article suggests men expand professional networks, read publications by women in the field, and encourage companies to assist educational programs.

Two blog posts from the publication's website are presented, one on strategies for effective teaching of college computer science courses and one on the challenge and the importance of rendering computer programming languages easier to learn and to use for non-specialists.

The article presents a pair of excerpts from blogs at the publication's Website http://cacm.acm.org, one by computer science professor Valerie Barr about comments on women in technology from Microsoft Corp. chief executive Satya Nadella, and the other by computer science professor Michael Stonebraker about the Hadoop open-source software program.

The article discusses gender diversity within the computer science (CS) field. Topics include an increase in the number of women enrolling in and staying in CS degree programs, a decline in the percentage of CS degrees that went to women between 1984 and 2015, and the role of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in changing the attitudes and behavior of people within the CS field related to gender bias.

The article relates the author's experience while attending a seminar on live coding, which is a performance involving computer programmers who create improvised music in front of an audience. Highlights of the seminar entitled "Collaboration and Learning Through Live Coding," organized by live coding experts Alan Blackwell, Julian Rohrhuber and Alex McLean, are presented. Several websites related to live coding are presented. The session on about the impact of live coding on software engineering led by Robert Biddle is mentioned.

The article features selections from blogs on the journal's website, at http://cacm.acm.org, including a discussion of a presentation to the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and a profile of A.M. Turing Award recipient Barbara Liskov.

The article presents blogger Valerie Barr's commentary on the ninth Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. The Conference's central focused on creating technology for the betterment of society. Conference chairperson Heidi Kvinge encouraged attendees to network with each other. A keynote address by Megan Smith of Google.org discussed the interconnectedness of computer science. Fran Berman of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute also gave a keynote talk that emphasized the importance of science, technology, and engineering in addressing social problems.