U.S. colleges are adding courses and specialized degrees in the once-exotic field of cybersecurity to try to meet the growing demands for computer security skills...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | January 8, 2010
For over a decade now, health care experts have been promoting telemedicine, or the use of satellite technology, video conferencing and data transfer through phones...The New York Times From ACM News | January 8, 2010
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has a plan to reform U.S. high school computer science education by giving the curriculum a much-needed update. NSF...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | December 23, 2009
Educators and technologists say both the image of computing work and computer science education in high schools need to change to fill what are expected to be the...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
In a speech given just a few weeks before he was lost at sea off the California coast in January 2007, Jim Gray, a database software pioneer and a Microsoft researcher...The New York Times From ACM News | December 15, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday (November 23) announced Educate to Innovate, a campaign to enlist companies and nonprofit groups to donate time and money...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | November 23, 2009
Many Indians bought their first mobile phones before they had their first experiences with personal computers. Pranav Mistry thinks that most of them might also...The New York Times From ACM News | November 6, 2009
Can children who do not know how many sides a triangle has get excited about learning math and engineering? Maybe a field trip to an amusement park will do the...The New York Times From ACM News | October 14, 2009
It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough. But that is exactly the complaint from some of the largest technology...The New York Times From ACM News | October 13, 2009
The mastery of light through technology was the theme of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored breakthroughs in fiber...The New York Times From ACM News | October 6, 2009
Students' performance in online education settings tended to trounce that of those receiving face-to-face instruction, according to a study SRI International carried...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2009
The U.S. State Department has added workers and developed new procedures in an attempt to speed up the visa process for foreign graduate students and post-doctoral...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | June 3, 2009