Sentences with phrase «all about computer science»

In particular, Code.org strives to reach underserved minority groups such as girls and Hispanic and African American students so they, too, have a chance to learn about computer sciences.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

The goal is to get young minds excited about computer science.

Videos all about computer science and everything computer related.

G.A. Something quite unique about computer science: We don't have a postdoc tradition.

Beyond accommodating more students, NCSU's statistics department is requiring undergraduate majors to learn more about computer science and visualization.

Previously the UW team reported that inaccurate negative cultural stereotypes about computer science deterred college - age women from the field and that altering stereotypes can increase girls» interest.

«This is the earliest age we've looked at to study stereotypes about computer science,» Master said.

Computer Science Education Week is this week, December 4 - 10, 2017 — In addition to hands - on projects and career profiles to help students learn more about computer science and coding, Science Buddies has suggestions for teachers to build on the momentum and integrate computer science projects with other classroom subjects.

Though she knew relatively little at the time about computer science, she still decided to tackle the problem herself; she taught herself how to use MATLAB, a programming language for numerical computation, to help write the software she needed.

Use this great resource from the Digital Schoolhouse to teach Key Stage 2/3 pupils about Computer Science and functional ICT skills in a creative c...

Then I told them about Computer Science Education Week and Code.org's vision to give «every student in every school the opportunity to learn computer science.»

JE: Professor Tim Bell, talking about Computer Science Unplugged which, let me see if I've got this right, is teaching Computer Science without a computer.

For additional information about computer science education in Oklahoma, click here: http://sde.ok.gov/sde/computer-science

The program provides a fun way for students to learn about computer science while allowing teachers to track student performance.

Don't be fooled - computational thinking isn't all about computer science.

Angela is a technology contributor to national publications, such as Edutopia, [https://www.edutopia.org/blog/surprising-skills-school-counselors-need-angela-cleveland] she presents on a national level about computer science and the school counseling profession, and she is an adjunct professor at Caldwell University.

Jason McKenna, Director of Educational Strategy at Robomatter and Dr. Daniel Castagna, Superintendent of West Mifflin School District were invited back to Pittsburgh Tech Council's TechVibe Radio to talk about our Computer Science Curriculum and the pilot program taking place at West Mifflin.

Contact Timothy Ellis, Computer Science and Virtual Learning Specialist, by email or by phone at 804-225-3489 with questions about Computer Science.

The subject demands knowledge about computer science and statistical mathematics to complete advanced econometrics assignments.

According to a profile of Liukas — the founder of a global initiative to teach programming to women — for TechCrunch, the non-profit founder has shifted her focus from teaching women to reaching out to much younger girls to help combat stereotypes about computer science and generate interest in programming.

Lauren Ipsum: A Story about Computer Science and Other Improbable Things.

In the Classroom: Bueno's Lauren Ipsum: A Story about Computer Science and Other Improbably Things is full of puzzles, wordplay, and metaphors.

«When you think about computer science education — since it's such an important subject for kids — why aren't they getting the best education they can get?»

He took the stage at the company's annual Faculty Summit — a two - day affair where researchers get together and talk about computer science — to answer questions from former Microsoft Research head (now part of the operating sytem team) Rick Rashid and the audience about all of them.

New Hampshire About Blog This is Alfred Thompson's blog about computer science education and related topics.

Not exact matches

Amid all the angst about the small percentage of women who work in computer science, a new research paper has a surprising finding: Women may actually be better coders than men.

«Computer science is not just for software engineers, it's also for healthcare workers, biologists and just about any field,» Cuny says.»

Not quite out of his computer science undergraduate program, Jackson Stone isn't just thinking about what's next, he's building it.

According to the National Science Foundation, women with bachelor's degrees in math and computer sciences has declined by about 25 percent since the mid-80s, when computer games were aggressively marketed as a boy's hobby.

«I was pretty depressed about the state of the global economy,» says Lubin, who studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton.

As a passionate advocate for accessible computer science, she spoke at this year's March for Science in Washington, DC and has presented a TEDx talk, which you can watch below to learn more about Eyeascience, she spoke at this year's March for Science in Washington, DC and has presented a TEDx talk, which you can watch below to learn more about EyeaScience in Washington, DC and has presented a TEDx talk, which you can watch below to learn more about Eyeagnosis.

I thought about how the gender gap persists in tech despite declining in other STEM fields, how hard we've been working as an industry to reverse that trend, and how this was yet another discouraging signal to young women who aspire to study computer science.

This includes a $ 37 million pledge to the University of Washington School of Social work, $ 11 million for scholarships to Washington residents in STEM fields, a $ 50 million pledge to the University of Oregon for scholarships and obesity prevention, and about $ 60 million to Harvard's computer science facility.

To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?

Activist hedge fund Third Point, which owns about 6 % of Yahoo's stock, pointed out that Thompson did not have a computer science degree, as many had thought, but a mere accounting degree.

They are talking about everyone who chooses to be self - employed — from a corner food vendor without a high school diploma to a high - tech founder with a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford.)

It's the big dream that anybody who's ever been in computer science has been thinking about.»

«I'm worried about the systemic risk that this centralized company poses, and I'm worried that if they go down, they will take down the space with them,» said Emin Gün Sirer, a computer science professor at Cornell University, who has a track record of successfully predicting problems in the growing virtual currency industry.

At a minimum, «Facebook is going to have to think about ways to structure their technology to give that proper notice,» said Woodrow Hartzog, a Northeastern University professor of law and computer science.

We don't know much about the author other than he appears to have no professional financial background or qualifications, is well - qualified in computer science and claims experience in data science and simulation.

The very computer and the internet are within that subset of our collective 3 % of the total understanding brought about by SCIENCE.

After graduating from WSU in 2009 with a degree in computer science, he turned to writing while looking for work, finding he was passionate about it.

My husband returned to college about four years ago after serving in the Oregon National Guard and working for the Oregon Military Dept.. He received a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science this year and works as a Research and Development Engineer.

Keromytis, the Columbia computer science professor, said manufacturers could make baby video monitors more secure by hiring a designer to reconfigure components and utilize existing technology, which would add about $ 10 to the retail price.

And he took preemptive aim at de Blasio's «Computer Science For All,» initiative, which the mayor is scheduled to make an announcement about later Thursday.

In addition to participating schools, representatives of various organizations and nonprofits working to expand computer science education, including CS4All, Digital Girl, Girls Who Code, The Learnatory, Codesters, Black Girls Code, and Sankofa Global will be on hand to talk about their CS education programs.

Since I enjoyed programming, I began to think about the field of computer science.

A grand experiment is about to begin in English schools: computer science will join the three Rs as the fourth core subject for kids as young as 5

Researchers from the Pasteur Institute and Inria, with researchers from the CNRS and Paris Diderot University, and from the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) in Austria, have published two articles in Nature Communications about computer control of cellular processes.