Computer Science

David Willetts: computer science courses 'catastrophically boring'

23 May 2012

Education is failing to keep up with the needs of businesses and putting people off studying IT, science and universities, Minister David Willetts has said.

Dearborn Education Foundation sees positive results on district students from Ford Fund’s help with computer lab

23 May 2012

DEARBORN — At the start of the school year the Dearborn Public Schools Education Foundation announced a partnership with Ford Motor Co. Fund to replace and renew computers in Dearborn Center for Math, Science & Technology’s computer lab.

New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniques

23 May 2012

Two years ago, Martin Rinard's group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory proposed a surprisingly simple way to make some computer procedures more efficient: Just skip a bunch of steps. Although the researchers demonstrated several practical applications of the technique, dubbed loop perforation, they realized it would be a hard sell. "The main impediment to adoption ...