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CS Department Hires Ethics TAs
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CS Department Hires Ethics TAs

Ten newly-hired teaching assistants will integrate ethics into Brown University's computer science curriculum.

How Harvard's Popular CS50 Class Became a 'Lifestyle'
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How Harvard's Popular CS50 Class Became a 'Lifestyle'

CS50, Harvard's introductory computer science course, is a carefully crafted model of how to teach any subject in today's technological and social environment. ...

Virtual Reality Brings History Class to Life
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Virtual Reality Brings History Class to Life

Students in Gonzaga University Professor Andrew Goldman's History 193 course will be traveling somewhere new, and possibly into the past, most afternoons this fall...

The Next Hot Job: Pretending to Be a Robot
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The Next Hot Job: Pretending to Be a Robot

The proliferation of not-yet-autonomous technologies is driving a tiny but growing need for human robot-minders.

WSU Project Aims to Hire and Retain More Women, Minority STEM Faculty
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WSU Project Aims to Hire and Retain More Women, Minority STEM Faculty

A grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation will help Wichita State University take steps to increase the number of women and minorities in its STEM faculty...

For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic
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For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic

"Tech has solved some of the world's biggest challenges, but it hasn't cracked the one closest to home: toxic, sexist workplace culture," says Girls Who Code founder...

Amber Johnson Is First Black Woman to Earn Ph.D. in CS at Purdue
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Amber Johnson Is First Black Woman to Earn Ph.D. in CS at Purdue

Amber Johnson made history this month by becoming the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in computer science from Purdue University.

Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students' Essays
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Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students' Essays

Natural language processing AI systems now grade standardized tests in at least 21 states. Psychometricians and AI experts say that these tools may be fooled by...

CU Boulder Researchers Find Five 'Types' of Computing Students
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CU Boulder Researchers Find Five 'Types' of Computing Students

A new survey by the National Center for Women and Information Technology found tbat community college students in introductory computing classes generally can be...

Women-Only STEM College Programs Under Attack for Male Discrimination
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Women-Only STEM College Programs Under Attack for Male Discrimination

Female-only science programs, launched by many U.S. universities to redress gender imbalance in such fields as computer science and engineering, are coming under...

Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database
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Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database

Some highly cited academics seem to be heavy self-promoters — but researchers warn against policing self-citation.

Trilce Estrada Wins 2019 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award
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Trilce Estrada Wins 2019 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award

University of New Mexico researcher Trilce Estrada has received the 2019 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award.

Data-Mining for Dark Matter
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Data-Mining for Dark Matter

MIT Associate Professor Tracy Slatyer hunts through astrophysical data for clues to the invisible universe.

Female Students Outnumber Males in A-Level Science Entries
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Female Students Outnumber Males in A-Level Science Entries

Efforts to improve girls' enrollment in STEM subjects show signs of bearing fruit.

How Boston Saved $5 Million by Routing School Buses With An Algorithm
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How Boston Saved $5 Million by Routing School Buses With An Algorithm

The Boston Public School District held a contest to determine the best solution for busing around 25,000 students to school every day. The winning algorithm improved...

U.S. BLS Ranks 22 High-Paying Tech Jobs
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U.S. BLS Ranks 22 High-Paying Tech Jobs

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked the wages of 22 occupations that rely heavily on computer science and data analysis.

Dubliner Wins Australia's Top Award for Women in Tech Start-Ups
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Dubliner Wins Australia's Top Award for Women in Tech Start-Ups

Annie Slattery, an Irish entrepreneur, has received Australia's top award for women in tech start-ups. The award was presented at the Hopper Down Under event, part...

Students Receive Hands-On Training for Careers in Technology
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Students Receive Hands-On Training for Careers in Technology

Indian Creek High School (Trafalgar, Ind.) is offering students the opportunity to graduate from high school with experience and knowledge that will help them secure...

How a State Plans to Turn Coal Country Into Coding Country
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How a State Plans to Turn Coal Country Into Coding Country

Driven by a tech-industry vision of rural economic revival, Wyoming is requiring all of its K-12 public schools to offer computer science.

How a Chicken Farmer Landed a Job In Cybersecurity
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How a Chicken Farmer Landed a Job In Cybersecurity

Logan Carpenter worked on a chicken farm in high school. Now he conducts cybersecurity research at Sandia National Laboratories, where work is stimulating, well...
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