The programmes, offered through HarvardX and edX, come with no eligibility criteria, no fees and no restrictions, making them ...

Harvard University is now making its most sought-after computer science courses accessible for free. Topics include AI, Python, cybersecurity, and web development. These courses come with no fees or ...

Using massive amounts of data to recognize photos and speech, deep-learning computers are taking a big step towards true artificial intelligence. Google Brain's discovery that the Internet is full of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Computer science curriculums have long emphasized the power of data, ...

A handful of nonprofit and for-profit groups are working to address what they see as a national education crisis: Too few of America's K-12 public schools actually teach computer science basics and ...

“Computer science is the new literacy,” says Vandana Sikka, who heads up the Infosys Foundation, the charitable wing of Infosys. That’s why the organization is partnering with the National Science ...

Learning a subject well means moving beyond the recitation of facts to a deeper knowledge that can be applied to new problems. Designing computers that can transcend rote calculations to more nuanced ...

LOWELL, Mass. - A team of teachers and researchers led by UMass Lowell is developing a computer science curriculum for middle-schoolers to introduce the field to students from diverse backgrounds.

If you gave Shelley Charlton an Excel spreadsheet to maneuver, the high school business teacher could dazzle you. But if you asked her how to solve a problem using the Snap! visual programming ...

Over the past decade, an explosion of mobile computing has offered new ways for more people to have an impact in their communities. As a result, more people are studying computer science, whether in ...

Times have never been better for computer science workers. Jobs in computing are growing at twice the national rate of other types of jobs. By 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there ...