Professor of Computer Science in association with St John's College - University of Oxford - Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford, , United Kingdom
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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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86-Year-Old Student Works Toward Computer Science Degree
Lowell Gardenhour, 86, a U.S. Air Force veteran, is a junior majoring in computer science at West Chester University. He has taken one class per semester since...
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Robots Could Be Girls' Ticket to Future
The University of Southern California is trying to expose young people to robotics and computer science through the robotics open house, an annual event that draws...
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Robots Ride to the Rescue Where Workers Can't Be Found
When Zbynek Frolik needed new employees to handle surging orders at his cavernous factories in central Bohemia, he fanned advertisements across the Czech Republic...
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Hackathons Are sually Dominated by Men; This One Was Just for Girls
"HeartOnSleeve," "Too Tired to be Tired," "Moodchanger," "Food for Less Thought." If these apps sound like something a teen girl would love, that's because they...
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Forget Tech's Bad Bros: Stanford, Berkeley Boost Female Computing Grads
More and more women are getting computer science and electrical engineering degrees from the Bay Area's two elite universities, a goal U.S. colleges have been pursuing...
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On the Shortage of Computer Science Faculty
To have a functional and sustainable computer science department, Haverford College must hire as many tenure-track faculty members as possible, as soon as possible...
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Attacks in K and Syria Highlight Growing Need for Chemical-Forensics Expertise
As investigations continue into the attempted assassination of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain, findings released this week have renewed...
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Cybersecurity Engineering: A New Academic Discipline
To encourage students to pursue the next level of cybersecurity education, academia must demonstrate that there is a clear path to better opportunities in terms...
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So You Want to Be a . . . Software Developer
Software development is one of the fastest-growing fields in the United States.
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Trade War or Not, China Is Closing the Gap on .S. in Technology IP Race
China's rising investment in research and expansion of its higher education system mean that it is fast closing the gap with the United States in intellectual property...
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A Revealer of Secrets in the Data of Life and the niverse
In statistics, abstract math meets real life. To find meaning in unruly sets of raw numbers, statisticians like Donald Richards first look for associations: statistical...
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AI Learns a New Trick: Measuring Brain Cells
In 2007, I spent the summer before my junior year of college removing little bits of brain from rats, growing them in tiny plastic dishes, and poring over the ...
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Grad Student Leads Group on Algorithms and AI for Social Good
Founded in 2016, the Mechanism Design for Social Good research group identifies research topics for which algorithmic, mechanism design, and AI techniques have...
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Evidence Shows How Digital Technologies Help Illuminate the Humanities
Yale University's "Beyond Boundaries" symposium featured recent work of undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty and staff members that incorporated...
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Volunteer Program Brings Computer Science to Schools
Project manager Eric Hatch volunteers for a program that brings IT and software industry professionals into high school classrooms to teach computer science skills...
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Learning Computer Programming, With No Teachers and No Tuition
Two-year-old Holberton School, which uses anonymous admissions tests and charges no tuition, is looking expand access to high-paying computer engineering jobs in...
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Doctorates Awarded by .S. Institutions in 2016 Near All-Time High
U.S. institutions awarded 54,904 research doctorate degrees in 2016, according to the Survey of Earned Doctorates, a U.S.-sponsored annual census of research degree...
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When Robots Milk Cows, Farm Families Taste Freedom
Robots have arrived at Bill and Carol Shuler's farm near Baroda, Mich., and life has taken a turn for the better.
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Tom Lehrer at 90: A Life of Scientific Satire
In 1959, the mathematician and satirist Tom Lehrer—who turns 90 this month—performed what he characteristically called a "completely pointless" scientific song...
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Massive Study Finds Lectures Still Dominate STEM Ed
Fifty-five percent of STEM classroom interactions consist mostly of conventional lecturing, a teaching style prior research has identified as among the least effective...
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