'Godfather of AI' says CS degrees 'will remain valuable for quite a long time' — and students should still learn to code

AI pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton said students who want to become AI researchers need to focus on critical thinking.
Community Impact

Lone Star College-Kingwood to host free computer classes in English, Spanish throughout January

Lone Star College-Kingwood will host a series of free workshops in January to help participants hone their digital skills, college officials announced in a Dec. 3 news release.
The Verge

The English of non-native speakers could make smarter computers

Researchers at MIT have created a database of annotated sentences written by non-native English speakers, the university announced in a press release Friday, in an effort to improve the ways in which ...
The Sopris Sun

Literacy Outreach strengthens the community through literacy and learning

This Sol del Valle article has been translated for English readers. Literacy Outreach has established itself as a key ...
PBS

Computers That Learn Human Languages Also Inherit Their Implicit Biases

We all have prejudices, whether or not we admit it. Psychologists tend to think of them as fundamentally human flaws—blinders resulting from thousands of years of culture and evolution. Receive emails ...
Education Week

Closing the Gender Gap in Computer Science Starts With Student Input

Men dominate computer science jobs. But the gender gap starts opening up long before students enter the workforce. Solving the problem is a two-part equation: first, schools must offer computer ...