The technique is called CLASSIC — an acronym for “combining long- and short-range sequencing to investigate genetic ...

A 13-year-old and his teen sister picked up vibe coding and ended up competing together in a 24-hour hackathon with their dad.

Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun is departing at year-end, urging computer science students to prioritize foundational math and modeling skills with long-term relevance. He emphasized that a ...

Access to high school computer science courses has plateaued, and overall high school student participation in those classes has declined slightly, concludes Code.org’s annual report on the state of ...

Every semester, it feels like finals sneak up on me even when I believe I’ve been keeping up. One minute I’m chilling after midterms, and the next I have at least three exams, two projects, and ...

Ripple effect: Whether AI turns out to be a bubble remains to be seen, but it appears young people remain confident that the technology is the future. Just look at universities, which are seeing more ...

Aria Moreno is a medical school student who now also happens to believe firmly in the power of fate. "I saved an organ essentially by volunteering that day," she said. That day she referred to was ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

Starting my computer science studies in my freshman year, I only needed to worry about the semicolon at the end of each line of code. With full honesty, computer science wasn't even a major I started ...

When third-year computer science student Sanjay Thiyagarajan suffered a sports injury that ended his playing days, he didn’t see it as the end of his athletic journey—he saw an opportunity to prevent ...

A degree in computer science used to promise a cozy career in tech. Now, students’ ambitions are shaped by AI, in fields that blend computing with analysis, interpretation, and data. But in 2025, the ...