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Software Engineering Grads Lack Skills Startups Need
The present state of software engineering education at universities does not meet the needs of technology-based software startups, according to a new study.
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Girls Now More Than 20% of Computing GCSE Entries
The number of girls in the U.K. choosing to take computing at the General Certificate of Secondary Education level increased this year, with girls now making up...
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How One City Saved $5 Million by Routing School Buses With an Algorithm
An algorithm developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a competition to determine the best solution for busing 25,000 students to Boston schools...
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An Inability to Reproduce
Big data and modern analytics offer enormous possibilities for research, provided scientists can produce consistent results.
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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...
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'Typically, If You Think of a Coder, It's a White Male'
The nonprofit Girls Who Code is collaborating with U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) on legislation whose overarching goal is to help close the gender gap in computer...
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Boost in High School Students Taking Advanced Computer Science Could Change Face of Tech
Data from the College Board shows that more girls and minority high school students are taking the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course.
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Nigerian School Girls Learn Technology During Summer Break
Nigerian technologist Chinenye Udeh has launched a program that aims to boost gender parity in the technology industry in her home country, where women make up...
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CS Undergrads Most Likely to Drop Out
Researchers in the U.K. have found that 9.8% of computer science undergraduates dropped out before completing their degree.
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Northeastern University Launches National Program to Boost Number of Women Majoring in Computing
Northeastern University hopes to improve women's representation in technology with its newly established Center for Inclusive Computing.
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Study Addresses Low Female Participation in STEM Classrooms
Increasing class size has the greatest negative impact on female participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classrooms.
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Exclusion in STEM Classrooms Lead to Lower Graduation Rates for Minority Students: UT Study
Black and Latinx students are more likely to leave science, technology, engineering, and math majors in college because of obstacles they face that their white...
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Dr. Fei-Fei Li: The Benevolent Scientist
"Now we have a new generation of women professors. But this is far from enough."
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U.K. AI Gender Diversity is in 'Crisis' as Number of Female Scientists Drops
A report from innovation foundation Nesta found the U.K.'s artificial intelligence (AI) sector is suffering from a "serious gender diversity crisis," as only...
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Schools Wrestle With Privacy of Digital Data Collected on Students
Experts are concerned that digital data stored on vendor servers could later harm students who make mistakes on social media, or with widely used classroom apps...
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Idaho Teacher ses Computer Video Games to Teach Science
Ninth graders in Lewiston, ID, are being taught about earth science through the use of interdisciplinary video games developed by Polymorphic Games, an evolutionary...
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Contention Over H-1B Visas is Hot Again
Should the U.S. admit more, or fewer, foreign technology workers?
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Not Just Tech Bros
Northwestern University's Sara Sood and Ian Horswill are working to make computer science more inclusive and appealing.
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Walmart Turns to VR to Pick Middle Managers
Virtual reality training is becoming more common in a range of industries.
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