We meet once per week on Thursdays 2-3 PM. Please join the listserv for access to the Zoom link.
For each session, we start with a group summarization of the reading then go into questions and discussions. We ask that everyone comes to the reading group meeting with at least one discussion question.
Spring 2023 Schedule
- Week 1 (April 6): Dan Garcia, Brian Harvey, and Tiffany Barnes. 2015. The beauty and joy of computing. ACM Inroads 6, 4 (November 2015), 71–79. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2835184
- Week 2 (April 13): Visit from Dan Garcia on Zoom! Read: Dan Garcia, Armando Fox, Solomon Russell, Edwin Ambrosio, Neal Terrell, Mariana Silva, Matthew West, Craig Zilles, and Fuzail Shakir. 2023. A’s for All (As Time and Interest Allow). In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2023), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1042–1048. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569847
- Week 3 (April 20): Scott Spurlock. 2023. Improving Student Motivation by Ungrading. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1, ACM, Toronto ON Canada, 631–637. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569747
- Week 4 (April 27):
- Section 3 of: Sébastien Bubeck, Varun Chandrasekaran, Ronen Eldan, Johannes Gehrke, Eric Horvitz, Ece Kamar, Peter Lee, Yin Tat Lee, Yuanzhi Li, Scott Lundberg, Harsha Nori, Hamid Palangi, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, and Yi Zhang. 2023. Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4. DOI:https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.12712
- Matt Welsh. 2022. The End of Programming. Commun. ACM 66, 1 (December 2022), 34–35. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3570220
- Week 5 (May 4): Duri Long and Brian Magerko. 2020. What is AI Literacy? Competencies and Design Considerations. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–16. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376727
- Week 6 (May 11): James W. Pellegrino. 2014. A Learning Sciences Perspective on the Design and Use of Assessment in Education. In The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences (2nd ed.), R. Keith Sawyer (ed.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 233–252. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519526.015
- Week 7 (May 18): HCI course syllabus workshop
- Week 8 (May 25): Discussing two recent talks
- “Broadening Participation in Computing by Moving Away from Computer Science” by Mark Guzdial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnjTi9v8ogk
- “Searching for Justice in Programming Language Design” by Amy Ko: https://www.hcii.cmu.edu/news/on/event/2023/04/hcii-seminar-series-amy-ko
- Week 9 (June 1): Cancelled for department’s end of year awards
- Week 10 (June 8): Cancelled due to finals
Please provide suggestions for future readings, topics, and guest speakers at this form.
If you are interested in leading a discussion on one of these papers, please reach out to the organizers.
Readings are uploaded to Google Drive for optional group annotation. If you need access to the Google Drive folder, please reach out to Melissa Chen.
The readings are chosen on a quarterly basis as a group based on group interest and partially referenced from Professor Amy Ko’s suggested readings. In the future, we expect to further explore individual interests from reading group members and read works by faculty members at Northwestern. To suggest readings, please fill out this form.