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Arts, Culture & Media
Designing a Computer with Great Taste
Arts, Culture & Media
The Computer As Artist
Arts, Culture & Media
Smart Programs Read Shakespeare
Since the inception of predictive algorithm software in U.S courtrooms, more than a million Americans have been analyzed using the technology.
Justice
Growing trend of using predictive algorithms in courtrooms and human services offices raises concerns over their current lack of transparency
College graduation
Business, Finance & Economics
How H-1B work visas transformed tech and education in the US and India
The percentage of computer science bachelor's degrees conferred to women has been dropping since mid-1980s.
Education
Women will be extinct in the computer science world if this trend continues
Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing
Media
Benedict Cumberbatch takes on another brilliantly awkward role as the man who brought computers to the world
All public school students in England will now learn programming from the ages of five to 16.
Education
Reading, math and … Javascript? Coding is now mandatory in English schools