Learning to code is often presented as a solution to job market problems of the 21st century, but are students really learning the competencies they will need?
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Past efforts to teach American students computer skills haven't always helped workers get better-paying jobs. But spending on hardware and software for schools has certainly enriched tech companies.
Most of today's computer languages make it hard for programmers to protect users' privacy and security. The fix is to take those tasks out of human hands entirely.
Cyberdetectives look for digital doors or windows left unlocked, find electronic footprints in the dirt and examine malicious software for clues about who broke in, what they took and why.
Computer programming is best learned through practice, but students in developing economies don't always have access to desktop or laptop computers. Mobile phones may be the solution.
A long historical progression has brought technology to the masses – and will expand our capabilities as far as we can imagine.
Lovelace showed great insight into her subject and for that she's still a hero to others.
Seymour Papert's vision has helped computers become widespread in education today, and gave birth to the movement to teach children to program.
Too many girls are missing out on learning IT and computer programming skills that could serve them well in the future economy.
Google saves $9 billion, programmers and users get to keep a popular language and its apps – and a key Oracle product stays alive.
Virtually every researcher relies on computers to collect or analyze data. But when computers are opaque black boxes that manipulate data, it's impossible to replicate studies – a core value for science.
Poetry is at the heart of technology. Did not Pythagoras find the connections between beautiful music and mathematics?
Machines are not very good at writing software from scratch, but they're getting pretty good at improving on human efforts.
A decision against Google in its court case against Oracle this week could lay the ground for upheaval in the industry.
Software is now too critical to how the world works, so we need to enforce ways to ensure it's better.
Teaching children to code with computers is only part of the challenge to preparing people for a career in the IT industry. But it can also do more harm that good in some cases.
If we want students to be well prepared for the 21st century, then we should be teaching coding in school.
If machines run by artificial intelligence take over the world it's only because we programmed them to do so. So how can fuzzy logic help us prevent that?
Tech companies are investing big in artificial intelligence research that allows machines to learn things from scratch, with no pre-programmed rules. So what's the potential for this new technology?
Following the trend of giving catchy names to serious operating system security flaws, the Linux vulnerability revealed recently by security researchers Qualys has been called Ghost. Like Heartbleed and…
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Professor Emeritus, Swinburne University of Technology
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