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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]
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 Graphics In Undergraduate Computational Science Education
White Papers This paper outlines how a computational science program can provide students the background needed to have this understanding. Computer graphics forms an important part of a working scientist's tools.
[April 25, 2005, 0:00]
Brown University's State-of-the-Art Computer Science Lab
White Papers And nowhere is that relationship more evident than in Brown's computer science teaching laboratory, which incorporates the latest advances in computing with classroom learning. Brown University and Sun Microsystems, Inc.have been partners in...
[July 23, 2004, 0:00]
Weblogging In Computer Science Classes
White Papers This paper will present how weblogs, or web-based, chronologically-ordered, content management system, can be used as part of computer science classes. The experience consisted in having the class professor use a weblog for class-related topics, as...
[August 28, 2004, 0:00]
Implementation Of The Integrated Courseware Manager For Computer Science
White Papers This paper discusses the features of CS.UNR E-Learning system, which is an integrated courseware manager program focused mainly on the evaluation and feedback aspects of computer science courses. It was developed to accelerate the grading process...
[April 13, 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]
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]
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]
A Discussion Of Computer Science Course Content
White Papers For a variety of objective reasons or others, some learners often think that the computer is too mysterious and abstract to study. Some universities and computer companies have developed a number of CDs about the computer's software and hardware...
[April 25, 2005, 0:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Teaching System And Network Administration In A Small College Environment
White Papers A course covering system and network administration is a good way to give computer science students practical and hands-on experiences with the applications of many computer science core topic areas including operating systems, programming, and...
[March 4, 2008, 23:00]
A LandMARC Success For Lancaster University: The Contribution Of Mobile IPv6 Source Code To Microsoft Windows Server And Windows CE .NET
White Papers The Department of Computer Science at Lancaster University is a leading British computer science department with research interests that include distributed multimedia systems, mobile computing, software systems engineering, interactive systems...
[March 28, 2007, 0:00]
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]
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]
