Researchers in China published a paper describing a theoretical model for photonic computing that used light particles instead of electrons for faster processing. The team developed “parallel optical ...

Why Rangan supports her son to pursue Computer Science knowing the uncertainty of the tech world. Yamini Rangan knows better than most that the rules of tech are being rewritten in real time. She runs ...

Seattle-based Code.org laid off 18 employees, or about 14% of its staff, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire on Wednesday. Following the cuts, Code.org’s staff now numbers 107. “Code.org has made the ...

Less than 40 percent of public middle schools say that they are offering computer science coursework. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up ...

Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality to more general office work with a new feature ...

Let’s start with a thought experiment: Pretend you could design America’s K–12 education system from scratch. Knowing what we now know about how technology shapes our economy, national security, and ...

Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...

The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream of activity spikes that may be ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

UC Berkeley has long been considered among the world’s most selective colleges and is home to top-ranked programs in computer science, data science and statistics. UC Berkeley students seeking to add ...

Ripple effect: Whether AI turns out to be a bubble remains to be seen, but it appears young people remain confident that the technology is the future. Just look at universities, which are seeing more ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...