"I only met two female computer science students and both of them couldn't wait to finish their degree and do something completely different, " she said.
In November a pair of German computer science students made a critical first step toward cracking the Wi-Fi Protected Access encryption standard, or WPA, once heralded as the solution to WEP's insecurity.
Women perceive and use technology differently from men, according to a white paper by three computer science faculty members at Carnegie Mellon, in which 29 male and 20 female computer science students were interviewed.
Often he hears computer science or engineering students say that great GPAs or a top name college are the ticket to a great startup job.
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Early exposure to computer science can lead students to develop an aptitude or liking for the subject, apply for opportunities like tech internships, and pursue it as a career path.
Code.org, a non-profit founded by entrepreneurs Hadi Partovi and his brother Ali Partovi, is launching a campaign to try to get more computer science courses and more students studying programming.
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Apparently, quite a few of his best students drop computer science at A-level because top universities are still sniffy about it.
And while "coding is the new Latin" may be a good message to send to parents and politicians, something a little sexier will be needed to convince school students that computer science is cool.
At the same time, the number of students enrolled in computer science classes has surged between 30% and 50%, professors said.
At the college level, 2% of students graduate with computer science degrees.
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They raised concerns about a lack of promotion of science and technology subjects at school, leading to a low uptake of computer science and technology courses by university students.
Mr. Cannon's introduction to computer science class has surged to about 300 students this semester, compared to 200 last year.
According to the Council of Graduate Schools, temporary residents in 2010 comprised 45.3 percent of graduate students in engineering and 42.9 percent of graduate students in mathematics and computer science.
The Stanford proposal, submitted in response to a New York City request for expressions of interest, outlines a high-technology campus that could be constructed in phases over 25 years to provide graduate degree-granting programs for students in engineering, computer science and business.
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Other students are turning toward computer science because of a change in social mores: A backlash against Wall Street bailouts means careers in the financial sector may now carry a negative stigma, said Adam Cannon, associate chair for undergraduate education in Columbia's department of computer science.
The computer science introduction course teaches basic skills by having students build a Google-like search engine, using the programming language Python.
Code.org claims that computer-programming jobs are growing at twice the U.S. national average while less than 2.4% of college students graduate with degrees in computer science -- less than 10 years ago.
Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology won a 2011 contest to create the program, where seven master's degree students started this winter in a computer science master's program.
In 2003 around 16, 500 students applied to UCAS for places on computer science courses.
"The thing that limits us is hiring the world's best engineers, " he says, noting that 60 percent of the students at the top U.S. computer-science departments are foreign-born.
In computer science, foreign nationals made up 58 percent of the fulltime graduate students, while 61 percent of the students in statistics and 60 percent in economics were also foreign nationals.
Dominated at the moment by courses in mathematics, computer science, and engineering, MOOCs may be ill-equipped to teach students to write and express themselves or to provide the hands-on experience of working in a lab.
And while we provide students from around the world visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities, our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or power a new industry right here in the United States.
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Lockitron creators Cameron Robertson and Paul Gerhardt were both University of Colorado students -- studying history, economics and finance, and computer science respectively -- when they started playing with inventions.
Each university will have an incentive to run an efficient and professional rating process, providing a real-world training lab for undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of backgrounds (economics, computer engineering, political science, law, finance).
In its computer science programming modules that launched in August, the platform has moved more toward experimenting with helping students learn by doing.
Foreign students represent half of all U.S. graduate enrollments in engineering, math, and computer science.
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According to the National Science Foundation, during the last half-century, foreign-born students earned three-quarters of U.S. doctorate degrees in mathematics, engineering and computer science.
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In Morocco those with science and engineering degrees, computer skills and languages go to France, the Netherlands and Canada, whereas the students of literature and public administration stay at home.
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