I’ve heard a lot of people claim lately that artificial intelligence – or AI – will make programming jobs obsolete in the future. In fact, the book The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World, which I wrote about last month, makes…
Second Graders at St. Mary Immaculate Parish School in Plainfield learned computer programming, urban planning, mapping, and story telling through an interdisciplinary group project in which they worked together to envision, draw, and describe their…
When it comes to corporate scandals, Volkswagen has pulled off a doozy. To reduce its emissions numbers without sacrificing performance, Volkswagen equipped its diesel-powered cars with software that could detect when the vehicle’s emissions system…
During Computer Science Education Week, nearly 75 million people around the globe spent an hour of their time learning how to write computer code. Some wrote a line or two, while some wrote tens or…
The “Hour of Code” is a nationwide initiative sponsored by Computer Science Education Week and code.org to introduce millions of people to computer science by introducing them to the art and science of writing computer code.…
Since you started using a smartphone, have you noticed a change in your expectations? I was folding the laundry this afternoon, and I kept trying to think of ways to create a mobile app to…
If you work in a field that requires constant currency, you have to make time to freshen your skills. This is perhaps especially true in Computer Science, where the ridiculous pace at which languages, platforms, theories,…
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science did a ton of service and outreach this summer. We held our third Green and Renewable Energy Workshop for middle-school teachers in Joliet. We held two summer camps,…
Seemingly every other type of creative work has an associated “best of” list some associated trade magazine compiles. Such lists are not definitive and often employ questionable metrics, assuming, of course, they use any metrics…
If a programmer coded an organization In the same way she codes an application What an amazing organization it would be. Wall Street would surely go bonkers As every competitor it conquered Faded fast into…