Find out why your kids need to master “two codes” — computer science and the U.S. Constitution. Read the entire article at The New York Times.
PC Speaker Pushed to Eleven
System Beeps, a new album by shiru8bit, runs in MS-DOS and is produced entirely through the PC speaker — you know, the one that can only beep. Read more about it at TechCrunch aind out how he did it at…
Women in Cloud Summit inspire women to stay in tech
Thirty-six percent of all tech jobs were held by women in 1991. That number is only 25 percent today. Women in Cloud Summit rallies crowd to turn the tide in tech. Read about some inspiring women and companies that are…
Online tools removes image’s background
Digital Trends features a pretty cool use of a website that uses AI to remove the background from photos … go straight to remove.bg if you want to try it out now. Remove.bg is a free service that takes five…
Computing pioneer Evelyn Berezin died this week—she should be remembered
“While IBM had been producing word processors of a sort for a few years when Berezin developed hers in 1968, she was the first to use semiconductor chips to make a true computing system for this purpose. IBM’s solution used…
Students quit college to launch altruistic company
Reyn Aubrey and dozens of his former classmates offer a new entry into raising money that combines altruism with capitalism. Aubrey came up with an idea that combines capitalism and altruism into PocketChange, a new fundraising model that works well…
Northern Virginia schools expanding CS programs
Amazon’s new HQ spurs Virginia Tech and George Mason University to expand their computer science programs. They hope to graduate students that can help fill the 33,000 cybersecurity job openings in northern Virginia. Read more about it at NBC News.
Try an hour of code this week
It’s Computer Science Education Week. Search for fun coding activities online and get your kids (or yourself) into the game! Learn more about it at csedweek.org.
Meet the finalists of Change The Game Design Challenge
Google chose five finalists from thousands of teenage girls who wanted to bring their unique voices to the gaming world. They worked with Girls Make Games and ESA to produce, develop and launch their game designs on Google Play. Meet…
People concerned about algorithms in their lives
Americans express broad concerns over the fairness and effectiveness of computer algorithms making important decisions in people’s lives. “Algorithms are all around us, utilizing massive stores of data and complex analytics to make decisions with often significant impacts on humans.…