Computer Science News

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has warned about a growing tide of surveillance and censorship The milestone will be marked on Wednesday, a quarter of a century since it was first proposed in 1989 by British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

At Cycle Computing we're seeing several large trends as it relates to Big Data and Analytics.

Today is International Woman's Day. Google has a doodle to celebrate it and the Anita Borg Institute has an infographic about notable women in computing.

How can organizations embrace - instead of brace for - the rapidly intensifying collision of public and private clouds, HPC environments and Big Data? The current go-to solution for many organizations is to run these technology assets in siloed, specialized environments.

Appcore announced on Tuesday that Appcore AMPa has been verified as Citrix ReadyA .

Public health departments nationwide are already feeling the strain from budget cuts.

In a new experiment aimed at integrating the humanities and computer science while providing students with unique educational experiences, Stanford will offer undergraduates the opportunity to pursue a new "joint major" in computer science and either English or music starting in fall 2014.

With smartphones and tablets increasingly at risk from malware, researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a new and potentially better way to detect it on Android devices.

The group already hosts conferences to encourage female students in computer science, but hope that videos can reach a wider audience.

What if math teachers across the country could get their pupils to learn two to three times faster? Yearlong courses like pre-algebra and geometry could be condensed to several months, freeing up students to dig deeper into subjects or learn additional material.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) March 06--It may sound like a good deal for some tech-savvy high school students: Take a programming course and then skip a required math, science or even physical education class and still earn a diploma.

The statistical evaluation of digital user data is of vital importance for analyzing trends.

A study reveals new information about the motor circuits of the brain that may one day help those developing therapies to treat conditions such as stroke, schizophrenia, spinal cord injury or Alzheimer's disease.

The Bitcoin world reacted with a mixture of acceptance and resignation to a Newsweek magazine report that the creator of the digital currency is a 64-year-old Japanese-American man living in the Los Angeles area.

Cloud computing has become a massive engine helping the corporate and end-user world interconnect at new, massive scales.

You bet they do, says Cisco, which has more than two years of experience under its belt with its Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure Services cloud.

Plenty of people have engineering degrees but not many have one specific to data centers.

The team that makes up the Lake Oswego firm KAMIND Inc. has written 'Office 365: Managing and Migrating Your Business to the Cloud.'

A group of female undergraduate students at Stanford is encouraging girls and young women to study computer science by means of an online video library that features motivational interviews with Silicon Valley women in computing.

SAP is introducing a set of new subscription pricing options for its Hana in-memory cloud computing platform, in a move that falls in step with the pay-as-you-go model common in the cloud computing industry.