We frequently measure our success in advancing coding and computer science by looking at the number
of computer science majors in the U.S..
Thanks in no small part to Klawe, women now make up 40 %
of computer science majors at the college, up from 10 % in 2005.
Not exact matches
«The vast majority
of women who show up at Harvey Mudd didn't expect to want to
major in
computer science,» said Klawe.
The result, predictably, is a rising crescendo
of voices urging more students to
major in fields like
computer science and engineering that will give them much in - demand hard skills.
«The prospect
of being able to make important product design decisions early on in my career was enough to sell me,» says Briana Whelan, a University
of Virginia
computer science and mathematics
major who joined APT as an associate product manager despite being recruited by Google, Microsoft, and KPMG.
So he applied to the University
of Pennsylvania and was accepted as a double
major in
computer science and biology.
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.
So reluctantly, she
majored in
computer science at the University
of Minnesota.
I think two
of the biggest reasons are that
computer science, as a
major, has been dominated by men, and so the people coming out
of CS programs have been male, and the venture - capital partnerships that have grown up since the»50s were almost exclusively male.
This summer, for example, Management
Science America Inc., a supplier
of software for larger
computer systems, acquired Peachtree Software
of Atlanta, Ga., a
major publisher
of accounting programs for personal
computers.
Ninety - three percent
of its alumni have gone on to declare or have an intention to declare a
major or minor in
computer science once they go to college.
Nationally, men make up more than 84 %
of undergraduates
majoring in
computer science, according to the Computing Research Association.
Rama holds an MBA from the Wharton School
of the University
of Pennsylvania with a double
major in finance and entrepreneurial management and a bachelor
of science degree in electrical and
computer engineering, with high honors, from Rutgers University.
Although Shih would go on to graduate with the highest GPA
of any
computer -
science major in her class, she told us that at times she «felt like an imposter.»
Students
majoring in engineering,
computer sciences, and from many other fields
of study are signing up too.
After all, most
computer -
science majors graduate without a significant number
of humanities courses, yet they clearly possess an impressive set
of technical abilities.
Take pictures
of the
major steps in this toddler
science experiment, glue onto construction paper and add a sentence for each by printing on a
computer or handwrite neatly.
I've been a professional web developer since 2002 and have a combined B.Arts / B.
Science from the University
of Sydney with
majors in
Computer Science and Linguistics.
I am a
Computer Science major who worked as one
of the email administrators for my university.
And this fall she'll build on her associate's degree by transferring to the University
of Houston in Texas, where she plans to
major in bioinformatics and
computer science.
An electrical engineering —
computer science major — or EECS, as it's known in the acronym - crammed world
of MIT — Amanda bakes chocolate - chip cookies for the dorm once a week and now does her part to make sure freshmen eat, sleep, and shower.
«StimDust is the smallest deep - tissue stimulator that we are aware
of that's capable
of stimulating almost all
of the
major therapeutic targets in the peripheral nervous system,» said Rikky Muller, co-lead
of the work and assistant professor
of electrical engineering and
computer sciences at Berkeley.
«These fields have typically not been included as part
of the
science curriculum and are not represented systematically in some
of the
major national - level documents that identify core concepts for K - 12
science,» it says
of the behavioral
sciences, while explaining that
computer sciences «has a history and a teaching corps that is generally distinct from those
of the
sciences.»
Five years later — not a lot
of time, admittedly — data,
computers, and statistical tools are indeed having a
major impact on
science.
Participants included undergraduate college students with a grade point average
of 3.0 or higher who are
majoring in
computer science,
computer engineering, math, physics, or electrical engineering
Albertani is working with Sinisa Todorovic, associate professor
of computer science at OSU, and Matthew Johnston, assistant professor
of electrical and
computer engineering, on what they hope will be a
major breakthrough in a safer - for - wildlife expansion
of wind energy worldwide.
In this episode, Scientific American senior writer Wayt Gibbs talks about what he learned at a
major computer security conference, the RSA Conference 2006; physicist Mark Shegelski reveals some
of the
science secrets about the Olympic sport of curling; and frequent Scientific American contributor JR Minkel discusses a number of stories he picked up at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of S
science secrets about the Olympic sport
of curling; and frequent Scientific American contributor JR Minkel discusses a number
of stories he picked up at the annual meeting
of the American Association for the Advancement
of ScienceScience.
The aim
of the Simons Collaborations in MPS program is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions
of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical
computer science.
Chakraborty, a junior
majoring in
computer science and molecular biology, made an early start on biological research at MIT, having reached out to Institute Professor and professor
of biology Phillip Sharp for mentorship on a high school report on circular RNA.
There's a significant amount
of techie talk, but it's interesting even if you're not a data nerd or a
computer science major.
My
major is
computer science, because I love to work on and build
computers (I'm kind
of a
computer nerd haha).
In fact, the overwhelming majority (about 95 percent)
of the newly minted STEM
majors in each cohort who enter the teaching profession teach in math or
science classrooms (i.e., nonelementary and including math, biology / life
science, chemistry, geology / earth / space
science, physics,
computer science, or general
science).
Similarly, although society's insufficient STEM career pipeline is one good reason to bring
computer science into schools, focusing narrowly on preparing the younger generation for coding careers could have
major limits, given that many
of these jobs may not exist or be as valued in the future.
The
major barriers to integrating educational
computer games into the classroom included lack
of computers (70 %), lack
of time (49 %), time needed for preparation for school and national high - stakes testing (27 %), lack
of knowledge about
science games (27 %), and a lack
of technology support within schools (24 %).
Major factors for success and overall results from BGCA's two - year evaluation
of computer science in Clubs will be shared and participants will discuss plans and frameworks for implementing
computer science in their own programs.
She's been accepted to the University
of Illinois at Springfield, where she plans to
major in
computer science.
In You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power
of a «Useless» Liberal Arts Education, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author George Anders reveals that liberal arts
majors are overtaking jobs once reserved for graduates with
computer science and business degrees.
This entry in the
Major Women in
Science series profiles nine women who became movers and shakers in the field
of engineering, including Grace Hopper, an early
computer engineer who also created
computer languages.
Universities are filled with students in all possible
major fields
of study — economics, political,
computer science, accounting, law, business, hard
sciences, etc..
The Press sells to all
major museum shops and hundreds
of independent stores, many
of which are specialty shops selling to a particular profession or market such as architecture,
computer science, or economics.
The online options in 2004 were limited, the color designs looked spammy, there was little encouragement
of «basket» purchases to entice customers to buy multi-items, and the checkout on the company website didn't even feel safe — it looked like the kind
of thing a
computer science undergraduate
major could hack.
He has an Associates
of Science degree in
Computer Programming and attended the University
of Arizona, where he
majored in
Computer Science.
Nicholas Gulezian is currently a student at DigiPen Institute
of Technology
majoring in
Computer Science and Digital Audio.
While attending the Tokyo Institute
of Technology, where he
majored in
computer science, he did freelance work as a programmer for HAL Laboratory, which was a developer that often collaborated Nintendo over the years.
I had studied Japanese, history and
computer science (though I wasn't a CS
major) so the fit with a Japanese maker
of historical
computer games was just perfect.
In 2008, I was lucky enough to be accepted into Concordia University's Bachelor
of Computer Science and
Computer Arts Double
Major.
His extensive list
of clients includes
major brands such as Google, The New York Time, TFL, Mondo, Liberty, Penguin, English National Opera,
Science, The Atlantic, The Sunday Time, Netflix, Medium, WIRED, Architect Magazine,
Computer Art, Arte, GQ, Microsoft, Nokia, Little White Lies, Farfetch, The New Republic, The Telegraph, Virgin, Sadler's Wells Theatre.
In college, Everybody, regardless
of major, should be required to take the Engineering and
Science Core Curriculum [E&SCC] plus a laboratory probability and statistics course plus more physics lab courses plus one course in
computer programming.
A
major piece
of evidence is the disparity between the Working Group I (WGI)(Physical
Science Basis) Report, particularly the Chapter on
computer models and the claims in the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) Report.
Yet energy wasn't even on his radar when he started out as an undergraduate
computer science and philosophy
major at the University
of Oregon.