Smoothing the path to computing: pondering uses for big data

The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the [email protected] community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts.twitterFollow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/blogCACMhttp://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacmMembers of the Computing Research Association suggest ways to broaden participation in computer science, while Saurabh Bagchi looks at use cases for big data.