Sentences with phrase «in school computers»

Investing heavily in school computers and classroom technology does not improve pupils» performance, says a global study from the OECD.

She also denied a suggestion from an OECD global study which suggested investing heavily in school computers and classroom technology does not improve pupils performance.

Students watch these videos outside of class on their smartphone, in the school computer lab (which now has extended hours), at home or even in my office if they need to.»

Teams of roughly four from all the first and second year classes started out in the school computer room, where they took the «Are You an Accidental Outlaw?»

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-- Jeremy Keeshin, cofounder and CEO of CodeHS, an online platform to teach computer science in high schools and middle schools used by hundreds of thousands of students

At a young age, Gates showed an avid interest in computers, spending as much time as possible in his middle school's computer lab.

Kaspersky himself is a graduate of the KGB Higher School, from which he received degrees in mathematical engineering and computer technology.

Bill Gates went to one of the only high schools in the United States that had a computer.

Gates showed an interest in computer programming at a very young age, spending all of his free time creating programs on the teletype terminal computer his school had donated.

Surprisingly, you don't need to go back to school for a degree in mathematics or computer programming to land a data science job.

That's what happened to Mark Tacchi, who dropped out of graduate school in 1993 to take a job at NeXT, the computer company Jobs founded after being forced out of Apple.

Gilbert says the public mistakenly blames the disparity on a lack of computer science labs in low - income schools.

One of the app's main features is a «panic button» that teachers can hit to send a school - wide alert (every phone and computer in the school will sound an emergency tone).

In the United States, just 25 % of schools offer computer science courses.

Our alums are going back to their schools and communities and teaching other girls tocode; they have the confidence to be the one girl in an AP Computer Science class.»

Hackers attacked the school's computer systems in January, gaining access to personal information of current and former students as well as staff and faculty members.

Recent figures on who took the high - school AP exam in computer science paint a picture of a professional field that appears to be moving backward, not forward.

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

Code.org's vision is that «every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science» and that it should be part of core curriculum.

In the study «Dominant CEO, Deviant Strategy and Extreme Performance: The Moderating Role of a Powerful Board,» to be published next year in the Journal of Management Studies, Tang and co-authors Mary Crossan and Glenn Rowe of the Ivey School of Business examined the experience from 1997 to 2003 of 51 publicly traded computer firmIn the study «Dominant CEO, Deviant Strategy and Extreme Performance: The Moderating Role of a Powerful Board,» to be published next year in the Journal of Management Studies, Tang and co-authors Mary Crossan and Glenn Rowe of the Ivey School of Business examined the experience from 1997 to 2003 of 51 publicly traded computer firmin the Journal of Management Studies, Tang and co-authors Mary Crossan and Glenn Rowe of the Ivey School of Business examined the experience from 1997 to 2003 of 51 publicly traded computer firms.

He survived the Rwandan genocide, dropped out of school, and lived out of a suitcase selling computers in Uganda at age 15.

«Using machine learning to find a needle in a haystack is where computers can help us transcend our limitations,» says Professor Adam Pah from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern's Institute on Complex Systems (NICO).

Beating out Apple iOS and Microsoft Windows in key aspects of school computer usage, Google's Chrome OS is the preferred operating system on the majority of school desktop computers.

Apple launched its back - to - school online and in - Apple store promotion on Wednesday, where students or student parents can get a free pair of $ 300 Beats Solo3 Wireless headphones with the purchase of a new Mac computer or iPad.

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.

After graduating from a technical school in 1999 with a two - year degree in computer programming, Frind got a job with an online shopping mall.

Snubbed by a computer science professor at her dream school, Erica Joy Baker fought her way back to top engineering jobs in Silicon Valley.

But back in the day, in 1998, she was just an 18 - year - old computer geek, sitting in her dream class at her dream school, getting the stink eye from her computer science professor and trying not to cry.

Because beyond his typically bombastic proclamation that «it's already too late» for most women to become programmers is a much more important message: Computer science ought to be a basic part of school curriculum, giving both male and female students early exposure to an increasingly important skill set in today's economy.

Systrom grew up in a small town in Massachusetts and first dabbled in computer programming while in middle school.

As Cox administrators gathered around their computers, they watched No. 18 — Cox's rank in 2008 — go to New York University's Stern School of Business.

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?

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

Gates was almost instantly obsessed with a computer when he first encountered one in eighth grade in 1968 at Lakeside School in Seattle, where he met Paul Allen, who would eventually become his business partner.

The film takes pains to make the computers and coding appear accurate, including a series of Bash commands Snowden uses in a test at CIA training school.

He attended state schools in London, then studied computer science at the University of Westminster.

The duo fixed and sold old computers in high school, ran a web development company out of their dorm rooms in college, and worked together at O'Kelley's first advertising startup Right Media post-grad.

The sinister extortion scheme — in which victims must pay to recover precious data — has already hit hundreds of thousands of computers at companies, schools, and hospitals.

I was really enjoying school, but back in 1997 and 2000, when I was in high school, there wasn't computer science education in high schools in New York.»

A Second Opinion The folks at Sift Science «are not the first people to come up with this, but they are the first making something useful of it,» notes James Cannady, professor of information assurance at the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla..

Peter Tokar, who serves as the president of the Alpharetta Technology Commission, tells Inc. that he's worked in partnership with Priority Payment as well as the computer gaming startup Kano, to provide 100 computers to Alpharetta schools this year.

- Sahab Aslam, 31, who recently joined Prudential's Life Technology Experimental Lab after finishing graduate school in computer science and engineering

Ankumah says he first studied the «underpinnings of technology» as a high school student at an all - boys boarding school in Ghana — all without access to computers.

Why you want one: The best perk of 529 plans is the ability to to pay for a host of college - related expenses, including tuition, room and board, books, computer equipment, and even Internet access, all tax - free (the plan student has to be enrolled in school to qualify for the computer and Internet perks, though).

A few months ago, our kids» school district, one of the largest in South Carolina, was hit with a virus that spread «ransomware,» a malicious software designed to block computer systems by encrypting the data in which the attackers gain access.

Dan Bricklin, 25, was getting ready to apply to business schools in Massachusetts, and Bob Frankston, 27, was working as a computer programmer near Boston.

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.)

Within the next decade, all public schools in New York City will be required to offer computer - science classes to all students as part of Computer Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill decomputer - science classes to all students as part of Computer Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill deComputer Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Research is carried out in a number of faculties and departments including the Rotman School of Management, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, and Engineering.