12 North Carolina school districts receive grants for coding and app development programs
A dozen North Carolina school districts received a total of $800,000 this year from the state’s Coding and Mobile App Development Grant program.
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New U.K. Currency Honors Alan Turing, Pioneering Computer Scientist And Code-Breaker
The Bank of England unveiled the new £50 note on Thursday, nearly two years after saying it would honor the pioneering mathematician who died an outcast because of his homosexuality.
Free Software Pioneer Quits MIT Over His Comments On Epstein Sex Trafficking Case
"I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations," Richard Stallman wrote on his blog.
Google Program At N.C. A&T University Aims To Increase Diversity In Tech
North Carolina A&T University has teamed up with Google this semester with the goal of improving diversity in tech.
Candy Heart Messages Getting Stale? Computer-Generated Options Are No Help
Computer programs known as neural networks learn by example. So a researcher plugged in some typical Valentine's Day candy heart messages — and got some weird new word combos. "BEAR WIG," anyone?
Colleges Have Increased Women Computer Science Majors: What Can Google Learn?
About half of Harvey Mudd College computer science graduates are women, up sharply in the past decade. It and other schools found success by adjusting their curriculums and making other changes.
Activists Build Human Rights Abuse Cases With Help From Cellphone Videos
A human rights group finds itself with an interesting problem — an overwhelming number of videos to catalog as it builds legal cases. Computer scientists are creating tools to analyze the videos.
'Embodiment Of Grit': How Children Of Farm Workers Became Tech Professionals
We first told you about CSin3 — an accelerated degree program — when it launched three years ago. Now its first cohort is set to graduate, with many students heading into high tech coding jobs.
Science Fair Winner Designs Device To Cut Virus Spread On Planes
When 17-year-old Raymond Wang read about how easily some diseases spread on planes, he thought airlines could do better. So he went to work — and won $75,000 at the International Science Fair.
What Makes Algorithms Go Awry?
Every time you "Like" a Facebook post, among other things, you help provide data to an algorithm. But algorithms, like the humans who design them, aren't foolproof — and can reflect bias.