Learning to Grow Strawberries-In Space
Growing fresh produce in outer space sounds like something from a movie, but a team of students at the University of Colorado in Boulder will spend the next academic year making it a reality.
View ArticleClimbing With Chaos
Rock climbing is not on the list of sports at this summer’s Olympic Games in London. But for many Coloradans, rock climbing is a natural test of one’s athleticism—and wits. For one recent computer...
View ArticleBlazing The Trail For Female Programmers
This story is part of our series, The Changing Lives of Women.Sarah Allen has been the only woman on a team of computer programmers a few times in the more than two decades she has worked in the field.
View ArticleHow One College Is Closing The Computer Science Gender Gap
This story is part of our series The Changing Lives of Women.There are still relatively few women in tech. Maria Klawe wants to change that. As president of Harvey Mudd College, a science and...
View ArticleInterested In A Computer Science Degree? Stay In Colorado
University teams pitted against each other, competing for the glory of their school. This scenario sounds familiar, but instead of taking place on a field, a recent competition involved screens and...
View ArticleOut Of The Fields And Into Computer Science Classes
To earn money for her family, Alicia Leon Rios worked in the fields in Salinas, Calif. Meanwhile, she sent her toddler, Leticia, to Mexico to be raised by her grandparents.Even now, Alicia Leon Rios...
View ArticleArmy Looks To Schools To Find The Next Cyberwarriors
You can literally see rockets when you drive into Huntsville, Ala., also known as the "Rocket City." NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is here, along with scores of aerospace and defense contractors....
View ArticleNew Computer School Makes French Students Teach Themselves
A new computer school in Paris has been overwhelmed by some 60,000 applicants.The school, called 42, was founded by a telecom magnate who says the French education system is failing young people. His...
View ArticleA Push To Boost Computer Science Learning, Even At An Early Age
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC5FbmsH4fwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaW3PAzHxCU
View ArticleFarmers Worry About Sharing Big Data
When it comes to keeping data secure, farmers are worried about some of the same issues as the rest of us. Precision data from the farm could help drive new levels of productivity, but farmers have to...
View ArticlePlaying The Markets, Learning To Manage Risk
On a frigid winter day, Chad Hart tries to warm his economics students at Iowa State University to the idea of managing some of the risk of farming using the commodity markets. Because, as he told them...
View ArticleArmy Looks To Schools To Find The Next Cyberwarriors
You can literally see rockets when you drive into Huntsville, Ala., also known as the "Rocket City." NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is here, along with scores of aerospace and defense contractors....
View ArticleNew Computer School Makes French Students Teach Themselves
A new computer school in Paris has been overwhelmed by some 60,000 applicants.The school, called 42, was founded by a telecom magnate who says the French education system is failing young people. His...
View ArticleA Push To Boost Computer Science Learning, Even At An Early Age
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC5FbmsH4fwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaW3PAzHxCU
View ArticleFarmers Worry About Sharing Big Data
When it comes to keeping data secure, farmers are worried about some of the same issues as the rest of us. Precision data from the farm could help drive new levels of productivity, but farmers have to...
View ArticlePlaying The Markets, Learning To Manage Risk
On a frigid winter day, Chad Hart tries to warm his economics students at Iowa State University to the idea of managing some of the risk of farming using the commodity markets. Because, as he told them...
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