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 ...

In mid-October, Justin Gilmer flew from California to New York to attend a friend’s wedding. While on the East Coast he visited his former adviser, Michael Saks, a mathematician at Rutgers University, ...

Programmers normally want to minimize the time their code takes to execute. But in 1962, the Hungarian mathematician Tibor Radó posed the opposite problem. He asked: How long can a simple computer ...

Is computer science all about mathematics? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by John ...

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science offers major programs leading to the bachelor of science in mathematics or the bachelor of science in computer science, as well as required and ...

Neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the 'multiple demand network,' which is also recruited ...

Chris Piech, professor of computer science at Stanford University, answers the internet's burning questions about coding. Do you need to know math to be good at coding? How many computer languages are ...

The Conversation spotlights Ada Lovelace, a female programming pioneer, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed, for Women's History Month.

Recently, there's been much debate over whether or not everyone should learn to code. Software engineer Yevgeniy Brikman says that this is the wrong question: there's a huge difference between ...