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 ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Earlier this month, Mozilla published a blog post titled “Higher ...

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Self-driving cars, robot-assisted surgery, automated news writing, a huggable, humanoid Mickey Mouse character at Disney World—these are just a few examples of the many ways computer science is ...

Over the last two decades, it can be argued, no area of study has seen larger growth in span and general application than computer science. Today, computer science encompasses everything from ...

A teacher in Virginia uses a micro-controller to connect a computer to a keyboard, allowing kindergarten students to play notes—and close a circuit—when they high-five their classmates. In Colorado, a ...

The number of hours spent teaching computing and ICT in secondary schools in England has been falling over the past six years, according to research. A study by the University of Roehampton found the ...

The new fall semester is upon us, and at elite private colleges and universities, it’s hard to find a trendier major than Computer Science. It’s also becoming more common for such institutions to ...

Students in Finland play chess to learn coding skills. Coding, the ability to read and write the language of computer software, is considered an important future skill, a fluency in the common langue ...