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Computer science's gender gap
News You don't need to visit too many high-tech cube farms and computer programming confabs before you notice that women in computer science are few and far between. In a new book entitled "Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing," social scientist...
[February 11, 2002, 11:49]
Computer science turns off students
News At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as in other schools across the country, computer science enrolments are dropping, raising questions about the country's future tech leadership. This fall, there are just under 200 new undergraduate...
[August 12, 2004, 9:45]
Data Domain Case Study: Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
White Papers The Department of Computer Science, Princeton University needed to backup critical research data, faculty and student home directories, presentations and email. The Department of Computer Science, Princeton University representatives discovered...
[August 18, 2006, 0:00]
A Non-Programming Introduction to Computer Science Via NLP, IR, and AI
White Papers Algorithmic concepts and programming techniques from computer science are very useful to researchers in natural language processing. This paper describes a new Cornell University course serving as a non-programming introduction to computer science...
[April 25, 2005, 0:00]
Dijkstra, pioneer of computer science, dies
News Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, one of the creators of the art and science of computer programming, has died. A background in mathematics and science -- his mother was a mathematician, his father a chemist -- led to his applying similar disciplines of formal...
[August 8, 2002, 15:17]
Computer science turns off students
Talkback But without the knowledge on population pyramid and trend in other fields of science in the US, we can hardly understand what is going on. Interesting.
[August 12, 2004, 20:53]
Video Conferencing, the Enterprise and You: Video Conferencing Knowhow Without the Computer Science Degree
White Papers Computers have changed one's lives by promising - and delivering - seemingly limitless innovation, from word processing to the Internet. Indeed, technology has even managed to honor the one pledge enterprises around the world were hoping for: the...
[February 12, 2009, 23:00]
Internet founding fathers win Turing Award
News The 2004 Turning Award, computer science's top honour, has been won by Drs Vinton G Cerf and Robert E Kahn for their invention of the protocols at the heart of the Internet. The prestigious prize is named after Alan Turing, whose theory of...
[February 16, 2005, 15:25]
Learn virus writing skills in Canada
News While many students would be expelled from their computer science programs for writing a virus, the University of Calgary plans to make writing such malicious programs a part of the curriculum. Ken Barker, head of the school's computer science...
[May 28, 2003, 13:50]
Women and Information Technology review
Reviews Discovering that women were underrepresented in computer science was a big surprise. If there is one branch of science in which you would have thought women would be competing on equal terms, it's computer science: it requires no great physical...
[July 5, 2006, 14:35]
IT employers look for business skills
News Employers are rejecting applications from computer science graduates in favour of candidates with more business and interpersonal skills according to new research. Universities are now running computer science degrees combined with business and...
[November 26, 2002, 11:17]
Academics demand inquiry into NHS IT
News A group of UK computer science academics have called for the Government to rethink its strategy for reforming the technology infrastructure of the NHS. The academics include some of the best known names in computer science in the UK, such as...
[April 11, 2006, 13:25]
Another day, another IE flaw...
News A computer science researcher has highlighted the shortcomings of Microsoft's latest patch for its Internet Explorer browser by identifying another way that online vandals could run malicious programs on a Web surfer's computer.
[July 7, 2004, 15:30]
E-voting 'risks fraud'
News The experts -- three computer science professors and a former IBM researcher -- said on Wednesday that creating an e-voting system that both guarantees that each person votes once and protects voters' identities is impossible with existing...
[January 22, 2004, 7:15]
Government rejects Bletchley rescue petition
Blog Comment the first minds of computer science where created and grown there and went on to develop and work in other important institutions the world over, both in education and defense of the free world during the cold war.
[August 27, 2009, 16:03]
Tech heroes in line for 'Greatest Briton' award
News The father of computing, the founder of computer science and the inventor of the World Wide Web all rank among the hundred greatest ever Britons, according to the UK public. Founding computer science Berners-Lee in 1980 first wrote a program...
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
Feds raid room, confiscate student's computers
News Law enforcement officials hunting for the vandal responsible for the 27 October defacement of the New York Yankees' Web site searched a computer science student's dorm room on Saturday and removed three computers.
[November 1, 2000, 9:43]
Buzzing bots behave like bees
News Swarming robots that can act in concert and mimic the behaviour of bees have netted James McLurkin, a 30-year-old doctoral candidate in computer science, the annual Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. The robotic swarm project is part of his doctoral...
[February 27, 2003, 10:06]
Lords leap into security inquiry
News The Lords' Science and Technology Committee will look at the nature of security threats facing private individuals, the scale of the problem, and how well the public understands the nature of those threats, it said on Friday.
[July 31, 2006, 12:15]
HP uses nanotechnology for new circuit
News Researchers at HP Labs announced on Monday that they have created a new kind of extremely minute circuit for computer chips using nanotechnology, the science of building devices out of parts measuring 100 nanometres or less.
[September 10, 2002, 6:27]
