Quick: what’s 4 + 5? Nine right? Slightly less quick: what’s five plus four? Still nine, right? Okay, let’s wait a few seconds. Bear with me. Feel free to have a quick stretch. You’ve just performed a ...
Programmers normally want to minimize the time their code takes to execute. But in 1962, the Hungarian mathematician Tibor Radó posed the opposite problem. He asked: How long can a simple computer ...
A student goes over an article in University of Washington’s computer ethics class, taught by Prof. Dan Grossman. Credit: Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education ...
President Obama earlier this year announced a new initiative, “Computer Science for All,” to empower a generation of American students with the computing skills they need to thrive in a digital ...
AI godfather and former chief scientist at Meta AI, Yann LeCun has shared a few words of wisdom for computer science (CS) ...
The Ohio State University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. In addition, 29 states passed legislation allowing computer science to count in place of a science course. When ...
Former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun said current and prospective CS students need to focus on skills "with a long shelf ...
In 2013, a who’s who of the tech world came together to launch a new nonprofit called Code.org. The purpose of the organization was to get more computer science into schools. Billionaires like Mark ...
For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and ...