Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

I wondered for quite a long time: does only knowing the basics of computer science help to become a better developer? And could it bring value to a developer? If you ask yourself these questions as ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Last year, 18 percent of Stanford University seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went ...

Technology shapes how we work, play, connect, and discover. At Northwestern, we don’t just keep up—we push the boundaries of what’s possible. As a hub for bold, interdisciplinary research, we connect ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a ...

CU alumni Terry Hogan and Lucy Sanders are leading the National Center for Women and Information Technology. For as long as she can remember, Terry Hogan (CompSci’94) has advocated for women achieving ...

President Obama wants computer science taught as often as reading, writing and arithmetic in American schools. “In the new economy, computer science isn’t an optional skill — it’s a basic skill, right ...