Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it’s a shame more people don’t learn to do it. For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as ...

Adapted from A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin. Out now from Harvard University Press. In the 1960s, Dartmouth College became ground zero for the coming explosion ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Jobs requiring computer skills are plentiful and lucrative, but so few teachers are trained in those skills that many Nebraska schools don’t even have basic computer programming classes. An initiative ...

Thanks to modern technology, students no longer have to be bound to a physical classroom to pursue a college education. Equipped with a device and an internet connection, students can earn an ...

Technology shapes how we work, play, connect, and discover. At Northwestern, we don’t just keep up—we push the boundaries of what’s possible. As a hub for bold, interdisciplinary research, we connect ...