Sentences with phrase «of school computers»

It permitted personal use of school computers by staff, but prohibited «inappropriate content», including sexually explicit material.

Although the U.S. student - to - computer ratio of 5 - to - 1 is tied for first in the world, some technology - oriented countries — such as Australia, Finland, and Iceland — have more than twice the percentage of school computers connected to the Internet that the United States does.

In this country, 39 percent of school computers are linked to the Internet, according...

«It isn't perfect,» says Nancy Miller, «but students know they risk being banned from use of school computers for violating the policy.

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.

The United States is among the leaders in the world in providing access to school computers, but it lags behind some other nations in frequency of school computer use and Internet availability at school, an Education Week report set for release this week concludes.

Two negative findings for the eighth grade were that the use of computers to teach lower ordered thinking skills was negatively related to both achievement and environment, as was the frequency of school computer use.

Not exact matches

-- 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

Ashu Desai, co-founder of San Francisco - based Make School, a new alternative to the four - year Computer Science degree, says he knows how to do it.

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.

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.

Fahlman says his smiley face, made from a colon, hyphen, and end parenthesis, spread from CMU to other schools, using the computer networks of the early 1980s.

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.

One of the men, Jha, plead guilty to also launching a botnet attack on Rutgers University where he was a student, which took down the school's computer network.

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 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).

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.

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.

And what about the millions of millennials who grew up with video games on everything from school computers to cell phones to game consoles at home?

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 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.

«Poker requires intentional deception and withholding of information, and that makes it very hard for computers,» Andrew Moore, dean of CMU's School of Computer Science, told Fortune during an interview last week.

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.

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.

One of The Foundling's recent graduates, Allen, had only a high school degree and a few college credits; he certainly did not have your typical computer engineering resume.

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.

The University of Washington's computer science school — recently named for one of the state's most famous natives, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen — is world class.

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.

Schools that helped produce some of Silicon Valley's most prominent leaders are hustling to bring a more medicine - like morality to computer science.

Rob received a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University and holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Sankaran holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master's of Business Administration from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

All Hands and Hearts — Smart Response will retrofit the entire school with disaster resistant walls and roof and repair the interiors of the buildings, the electrical system, a computer lab, the playground and all the outdoor fencing.