Group Offers Free Computer Science Lessons

With all the recent talk about improving math and basic science education to keep the United States competitive, Chris Stephenson worries that a third piece of the educational picture is being forgotten: computer science.

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A new result by Princeton computer scientists and economists shows a striking application of computer science theory to the field of financial derivative design.

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Israeli researchers said Thursday they are developing a computer program to make ancient documents more legible and easily indexed, which could eventually lead to a searchable catalog of archived historical texts. The program, which is being developed by a team of computer scien …

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Thousands of people have signed a Downing Street petition calling for a posthumous government apology to World War II code breaker Alan Turing.

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Could an autonomous machine become smarter than the designer? There are machines out there that are extremely intelligent and can learn. Is there a danger to turning over so many things to educated machines? Some computer scientists think so.

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In the future you won't use computers to design a car, the car will form from billions of tiny computers that arrange themselves into anything you want. The physical and computational world will merge. Hope you're ready. More Articles

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Ever wonder how many cups of coffee you drink each month, or how many times you'll log into Facebook this year? Perhaps you'd like to not only track your caloric intake, but to know what times of day it peaks and troughs.

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By observing the global flow of news online, Cornell computer scientists have managed to track and analyze the "news cycle" - the way stories rise and fall in popularity.

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On Friday, EFF and the law firm of Fish and Richardson filed an emergency motion to quash [pdf] and for the return of seized property on behalf of a Boston College computer science student whose computers, cell phone, and other property were seized as part of an investigation int …

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Computer scientists affiliated with the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with scientists at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium, deployed the first pr …

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One computer program would allow vision-impaired shoppers to point their cellphones at supermarket shelves and hear descriptions of products and prices. Another would allow a physically disabled person to guide a computer mouse using brain waves and eye movements.

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On a supercomputer at Virginia Tech University a team of computer scientists is building an artificial America filled with fake people who are given real addresses and are based on actual demographics.

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Computer science is giving scientists new ways to look at the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), perspectives that may help efforts to develop an effective vaccine and other medicines, according to the head of Microsoft's research arm.

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Eugene Goostman is a 13-year-old boy from Odessa, Ukraine, the son of a talk-show host and a gynaecologist, who keeps a guinea pig called Bill in his bedroom and likes the science fiction novels of Sergei Lukyanenko and Kurt Vonnegut. ...

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Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers.

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Repeal The Uniform Services Former Spouses Protection Act (usfspa)

The Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act, 10 U.S.C. sect 1408, et seq. included as a "rider" to the 1983 Defense Appropriations Bill, often called the USFSPA, effectively invalidates the United States Supreme Court's ruling McCARTY v. McCARTY, 453 U.S.

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After three decades of disappointments, artificial intelligence researchers are making progress. Finally, a ray of hope in what has otherwise been the most over-hyped of the hype since the 1960's.

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In the fall of 2000, Bloch taught a programming course that was a prerequisite for a computer science degree, for which enrollment was 40 percent women. In the current academic year, there is only one female computer science major, he said.

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Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer programmer who invented the natural language understanding program known as ELIZA and later grew skeptical of artificial intelligence, has died, his family said Thursday. He was 85.

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In what appears to be a first, the US House of Representatives now has a Congressman who can code...in assembly. That's right, a Congressman with geek skills.

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It didn't take long before the model reacted. After only a few electrical jolts, the artificial neural circuit began to act just like a real neural circuit. Clusters of connected neurons began to fire in close synchrony: the cells were wiring themselves together.

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In October 2006, Netflix announced it would give a cool seven figures to whoever created a movie-recommending algorithm 10 percent better than its own.

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Universities are more heavily in debt and borrowing more than at any time since 1997, Education Guardian can reveal.

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PCs may disappear from your desk by 2033. But with digital technology showing up everywhere else--including inside your body--computing will only get more personal.

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In the past few years, Watts--a network-theory scientist who recently took a sabbatical from Columbia University and is now working for Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) --has performed a series of controversial, barn-burning experiments challenging the whole Influentials thesis.

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He Ain't Heavy; He's My Robot

More than one hundred years ago, Charles Babbage began thinking about how to make machines that could do math. Ever since, people have been thinking (and arguing) about whether man will ever mechanically replicate himself.

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