(TNS) — Math teachers are eagerly working toward a future in which many high school students take computer science to fulfill their math requirements, even though computer science doesn't involve the ...
President Obama earlier this year announced a new initiative, “Computer Science for All,” to empower a generation of American students with the computing skills they need to thrive in a digital ...
There is a general sense that programming is related to math and that people who are successful in math are often successful at programming. For math teachers, a natural question arises: “What is the ...
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has released a statement cautioning states and districts that allowing computer science courses to substitute for a high school math course could ...
In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. A new study of an unusually rich dataset in Maryland found ...
Growth and change in technology have brought a boom in the availability of data and the need for people to shape technologies. Growing areas like machine learning require expertise in programming, ...
According to Hinton, the real value of a CS degree lies in the fundamentals -- systems thinking, mathematics, logic, and ...
The most enrolled courses largely consist of computer science offerings, along with other STEM classes and core requirements.
For her pioneering work in computer science, Grace Murray Hopper ’30 M.A., ’34 Ph.D. has been dubbed the “queen of code” by her biographers. Yet, beneath that crown was the brain of a mathematician, ...
Geoffrey Hinton says that even if AI takes over some coding, a Computer Science degree is still important. CS teaches more ...