At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate ...

A note from the Editor in Chief: Scientific American is celebrating its 166th year. Given its history as the longest continuously published magazine in the U.S., it's probably no surprise that it has ...

Many of the fastest-growing, highest-paying jobs require computer-science skills and the ability to work with data--but they aren’t programming jobs, and they don’t require a computer science degree.

Most reputable programs look for a GPA of at least 3.0, although the more competitive institutions may require a 3.5 or ...

Purpose: This case history reports on the process of developing a method to identify, extract, and clean string citation data from a corpus of articles to assist future studies on research methods, ...

Spreadsheets are still useful, but if you do a lot of work with numbers, you'll realize that they have limitations.

Key Takeaways Applied math/statistics (BS/MS) and Financial Engineering / Quantitative Finance (MS) graduates are landing the ...

For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression. Donald Knuth is a computer scientist who came of age with his field. During the nascent years of ...

“Women are ‘naturals’ at computer programming.” So said the pioneering programmer Grace Hopper in a 1967 Cosmopolitan article. Programming, she explained, is “just like planning a dinner”: It requires ...