The subject had proved more attractive to girls
than computer science, but the proportion of female entries dropped from 41 percent to 39 percent.
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.
Microsoft and the China University of Technology and
Science taught a
computer network how to take an IQ test, and it scored better
than a college postgraduate.
David Poole, a UBC
computer science professor who specializes in artificial intelligence, explains that Watson and Siri treat the Internet as part of their brains, and consequently know more
than any human ever could.
With more
than 8,000 tech jobs available on Dice.com on any given day, New York City, unsurprisingly, is the most challenging place to recruit
computer science graduates, the survey found.
In 2015, there were more
than 600,000 open jobs in
computer science fields, with slightly more
than 40,000
computer science graduates entering the workforce that year.
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.
Today more
than 6,300 students are enrolled at Georgia Tech to earn an online masters of
science in
computer science degree, with nearly 500 of them from AT&T.
The University of Illinois alone graduates more
computer science grads
than Stanford and Berkeley combined.
According to PayScale's results at least, «Men tend to go into engineering,
computer science, management roles and director roles more so
than women, and those jobs see fairly consistent pay increases year in and year out,» Bardaro says.
Nationally, men make up more
than 84 % of undergraduates majoring in
computer science, according to the Computing Research Association.
The labor had been painful, and there'd always been more workers
than jobs, so after deciding to return to school, this time at Howard, he'd chosen
computer science.
The Midwest receives 25 percent of all research dollars in America and graduates more
computer science degrees
than any other region or country on planet earth.
Business and
computer science students create interfaith web platform to inspire more
than just dialogue
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.
to dandintac, the evolution of stars or solar systems or life forms to different species takes billons of years to complete., that we in our lifetime cant comprehend its teleology or purposefullness.At the University of Illinois, a super
computer called The nautilus, predicts the future by analysing through computational methods mathematical algorithim the historical inputs for hundreds of years and discovered that it has a direction or intepreted as has a purpose.Someday in the future when we will be technologically advanced, Gods will will be clearly reveald to us.All of this will be part of his will, at this time beyond our comprehension, but will be in the future, The next generation of quantum
computers which are tens of thousands more powerfull and faster
than todays will provide us the informations to solidify the future religious faith based in
science.
... The first grants will support
Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women)
Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).
Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to
computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women)
computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).
science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less
than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).»
Chancellor Fariña Announces Record Number of NYC Students Taking and Passing Advanced Placement Exams With the implementation of
Computer Science for All, the number of students taking an AP
Computer Science exam in 2017 rose more
than threefold, from 1,137 students to 3,966 students.
Biology's concept of information is less
than a century old, deriving from
computer science.
On the map,
computer science is linked more closely to social
sciences like psychology and sociology
than to applied physics.
The links between
computer science and mathematics are stronger
than ever.
In the three other categories — biological
science (including biomedical),
computer science, and engineering — Ph.D. recipients are much less likely to hold faculty positions
than they are in math and the physical
sciences.
«In
computers, it's a lot more «if X, then Y» mentality»
than in other areas of
science.
Women receive more
than 40 percent of undergraduate degrees in math, for example, but just 18 percent of degrees in
computer science.
«I know of no other technology except
computer science that can be as influential in the survival of human life on this planet
than that of mushroom mycelium,» says Stamets, who has been awarded six patents for mushroom - based inventions.
In 2009, those institutions granted something like 95,000
computer science degrees, including about 32,000 associate's degrees and fewer
than 1600 Ph.D. s. Over 10 years, that adds up to more
than the number of new jobs that BLS expects will be added, but significantly fewer
than the number of job openings.
Meanwhile, a dramatic mid-decade drop - off in jobs in industry for
computer science Ph.D. s has completely reversed itself; despite the strong growth in academia, today a higher percentage of Ph.D. s are employed in industry
than was the case during the industry's previous peak during 1996 — 7.
With help from a new algorithm created by BYU
computer science professors Jacob Crandall and Michael Goodrich, along with colleagues at MIT and other international universities, machine compromise and cooperation appears not just possible, but at times even more effective
than among humans.
The reason, they say, is that people could write equations on boards rather
than see characters hunched over their screens, but I think they also thought that
science is just intrinsically more interesting, and it catches your imagination more
than computer programming.
Immigration scholar and
computer science professor Norman Matloff recommends, in an article at Bloomberg, that, «Rather
than offering work visas and green cards to all foreign students attaining U.S. postgraduate degrees, legislation should focus on facilitating the immigration of top talent.»
Reaching exascale is expected to be far more difficult
than simply wiring additional
computer processors together (as
Science reported in this 2012 feature).
African - American men earned less
than half of the S&E doctorates awarded to African - Americans in 1999.1 However, Hispanic men earned half their share and Native American men slightly more
than half of the S&E doctorates awarded to their respective racial groups.1 The dearth of minority males contrasts with the overrepresentation of males among whites and Asians in S&E, especially in engineering, mathematics,
computer science, and the natural
sciences.1, 3 Overall, nearly twice the total S&E doctorates awarded were earned by men in 1999.1 The lack of minority males goes beyond the S&E community, but does this shortage extend beyond minority populations as some contend?
Graduate enrollment in
computer sciences, a field of special concern to many industrial leaders, rose for the fifth straight year, standing almost 20 % higher
than in 1990 and some 130 % greater
than in 1980.
Likewise, the number of bachelor's degrees in mathematics and
computer science has more
than doubled since 1980, although the figure has cycled up, down, and back up.
Amy Lark, an assistant professor of
science education at Michigan Technological University, says Avida - ED is a more user - friendly program
than Avida, a research platform for conducting and analyzing experiments with self - replicating and evolving
computer programs.
A more recent incident — the 2005 publication in the journal
Science of the sequence of the 1918 flu virus, which killed more
than 20 million people — prompted
computer pioneers Ray Kurzweil and Bill Joy, in a New York Times op - ed article, to rail against too much scientific openness.
The Taulbee report confirms that more
than half of recent
computer science Ph.D. s found jobs outside academia in 2012.
«Prior tools limited visualization to presentation and dissemination, rather
than a hybrid tool integrating interactive visualization with algorithmic analysis,» says Héctor Corrada Bravo, assistant professor in
computer science at UMD.
A possible binding site is only functional in less
than one percent of circumstances, says the study's other co-corresponding author Rohs, a professor of biological
sciences, chemistry, physics, and
computer science who is also a faculty member in the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has committed more
than $ 1.3 million in funding from 2006 through 2011 for a project led by Alexey Onufriev, an associate professor in Virginia Tech's departments of
Computer Science and Physics, to represent water computationally, because water is key to modeling biological molecules.
But Massachusetts's colleges and universities have had an eye on industry for more
than a decade, Griesemer says, citing the addition of bioinformatics to
computer science programs and clinical trials training to medical school curriculums as early examples.
In the first of three related papers being presented next week at the Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, a team of
computer science and psychology researchers from NC State and Microsoft Research surveyed more
than 250 developers on their experiences with security tools.
Of the 13 public
science agencies, CNRS, the National Center for Scientific Research, will receive an additional $ 34.4 million, 2.5 % more
than this year; INSERM, the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, $ 9.8 million euros, up 2.9 %; and INRIA, French National Research Institute for
Computer and Control Sciences, $ 5.5 million euros.
By adding fundamentals of biology to their
computer science training, more
than a few native
computer scientists are contributing — and preparing themselves to contribute — to the advancement of the life
sciences (among other fields), laying foundations for new branches of study.
A University of Texas at Dallas team is exploring whether teaching real - world
science through a popular
computer game may offer a more engaging and effective educational approach
than traditional concepts of instruction.
Biology is increasingly lab - based, and much important earth
science research is now done in front of a
computer screen rather
than out in the physical world.
Nowhere is that disparity more pronounced
than in engineering, with
computer science close behind.
One
science magazine extrapolated from this to suggest that storing information about just a few hundred electrons needs a
computer memory made up of more atoms
than exist in the universe — thus, simulating the universe is impossible.
«What's great about our system is that the user doesn't have to be an artist for the sketch to be accurate, yet is able to retrieve images in a more precise manner
than text,» said co-developer Dr Yi - Zhe Song, Director of the SketchX Research Lab, from QMUL's School of Electronic Engineering and
Computer Science.
Special quantum systems that promise to solve certain tasks more quickly
than a classical
computer, however, are already playing an important role in
science.