Sentences with phrase «people studying computer science»

This is partly due to the fact that the number of people studying computer science in the UK has dropped by 23 % at undergraduate level and 34 % at graduate level during the last decade.

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Military hackers are among the most talented, and rewarded, people in North Korea, handpicked and trained from as young as 17, said Jang Se - yul, who studied with them at North Korea's military college for computer science, or the University of Automation, before defecting to the South six years ago.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a technique recently borrowed from the computer science field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern analysis — to examine brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.

«We extract the general principles of how people behave,» said Ashutosh Saxena, Cornell professor of computer science and co-author of a new study tied to the research.

The work may lead to tricks for quickly pinpointing what's popular with the people, Kezhen Chen, computer science major and study coauthor told me.

«Our extensive user studies demonstrated age progression results that are so convincing that people can't distinguish them from reality,» said co-author Steven Seitz, a UW professor of computer science and engineering.

«Fingerprinting on computers is invisible to most people but there are companies out there who are already using these techniques to learn more information about individuals, about their interests and their habits,» says Lachlan Kang, a Computer Science PhD student who is conducting this study as part of a wider project on privacy, within the University's Schools of Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

But in a study of Georgia Tech's hugely successful online master of science in computer science (OMSCS) program, educational economists Joshua Goodman and Amanda Pallais and public policy expert Julia Melkers found that digital learning can tap into a new market of students by offering an online degree that is equivalent in all ways to an in - person degree, at a fraction of the cost.

Studying computer science helped me see beyond that mystery and magic and into the people, processes, and assumptions underlying computational artifacts.»

While some employers will hire people with a high school degree and considerable on - the - job experience in a network environment, most are looking for a bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a similar course of study.