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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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SoNIC Program Empowers Diverse CS Students
Cornell University's SoNIC workshop, now in its ninth year, has exposed hundreds of minority students from across the U.S. to computer science, and to the prerequisites...
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Parents Don't Know Enough About Cyber Careers
Parents don't know enough about cybersecurity to encourage their children to pursue careers in the field, a SANS Institute study found.
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MIT Develops a System to Give Robots More Human Senses
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a system that could give robots the ability to link multiple senses....
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Computer 'Geek' Stereotype Puts Girls Off Subject
A U.K. study found stereotyping of computing as "a male-oriented domain consisting of anti-social 'nerds, geeks, or hackers,'" discourages female students from...
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From Brueghel to Warhol: AI Enters the Attribution Fray
Art historians are starting to utilize machine learning to provide empirical support for theories previously limited to the subjective eye of the beholders.
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Harvey Mudd President Maria Klawe Has a Message for CS grads—and the Tech Industry
Klawe made diversity her top priority when she took the helm at Harvey Mudd College 13 years ago.
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Africa Technology Hub Rises in Congested Lagos Neighborhood
The Yaba neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, is a growing technology hub hosting more than 60 startups, digital laboratories, and the Yaba College of Technology.
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Tech Skills Shortages are Increasing Every Year, and Large Corporates are Worst Affected
Every year, the IT skills shortage worsens, warns Harvey Nash CEO Albert Ellis, with the fields of big data, security and AI most acutely affected.
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