Blog On Sept. 26, Software.org: the BSA Foundation released a new report titled "The Economic Impact of Software." The study details the rapid growth of the software industry in the United States and its resulting impact across the economy -- both at national and state levels. The study found that the t...
Blog I wrote a blog post last week about the fact that Computer Science graduates are the largest group of unemployed graduates in the UK with 17% of recent graduates unemployed. There was a great debate about whether offshoring was the main cause of this. Not everyone thought so. One thought 17...
Blog I blogged last year about figures published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). They showed unemployment rates for recent graduates in different subject areas in 2009. In 2009 recent Computer Science graduates had the highest rate of unemployment six months after graduating, wit...
Blog Codio has released an Ask the Expert's video which investigates the best ways of teaching computer science through coding in schools. This is the third video in the Ask the Expert's series from Codio, with the episode focusing on the BCS Certificate in Computer Science Teaching. The video...
Blog This blog has been focussing quite heavily on the potential damage to the UK IT industry caused by offshoring work to lower cost locations. I recently quoted the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) which revealed that recent Computer Science graduates have the ...
Blog The NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] has taken a different direction with NHS trusts being given a choice of a range of systems from various suppliers - which they were able to do before the advent of the NPfIT in 2002. An announcement was made today [7 May 2008] of the names of suppliers ...
Blog RunRev has announced a campaign to create an open source programming language targeted at school students. The firm cites statistics which estimate that there will be more than 150,000 U.S. computer science jobs projected annually through to the year 2020 -- but only 40,000 graduates with degrees i...
Answer I have a Bachelors of Science in computer science but my only experience is as a computer operator, which has become an antiquated occupation. In the IT work force, is there room for my skill set?
Answer Does a bachelor degree in computer science and engineering cover the contents of A+, MCSE or CCNA? If not, why and then what are basic fields of career of a graduate of computer science and engineering?
Blog Microsoft has lured David DeWitt, former head of the Univerity of Wisconsin Computer Science Department aboard as a Microsoft Fellow. He won't be leaving Badgerland behind: DeWitt will lead the new Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab, an advanced development center right there in Madison. Gray, a respe...
Answer Recently I did a bachelor in arts. Right now, I'm doing SAP ABAP from ciba. After completing this certification, can I get a job in companies? Because my study background is not from computer science. Is this necessary to get degree in computer science?
Blog Some things just bear repeating. As part of our most recent roundup post -- in roundups, we gather interesting items you may have missed from the week that was -- we highlighted a new initiative created to promote young women in computer science. Girls Who Code was founded by former New York City ...
Blog It was lunch break on day two of the Fusion 2012 CEO-CIO Symposium but Judy Caruso was all business. Or I suppose I should say, "all IT." The director of IT policy for the University of Wisconsin pulled up a chair next to me, commented on the quality of the lunchtime fare and followed up shortly wit...
Blog If you haven't already seen, Dame Wendy Hall won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 FDM everywoman awards this week. Dame Wendy Hall is a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton and a founder of the Web Science Research Initiative. This is the third year I have attend...
Blog Imperial College, London has officially launched its Data Science Institute, announced last year. And the government has announced 42 funding for the Alan Turing Institute, location to be decided. Data Science is, then, officially in vogue. Not just the pet name for data analytics at Silicon Vall...
Answer I finished my BSc in Computer Science in 2003. I am working in Dubai for a construction company, and have found that I am fully out of my computer science field. But now I am very much interested to learn and work in the networking field. Which courses do I need to take to catch up and get back into...
Blog Multimedia in computer science departments. I teach in a computer science department, and in the previous posting of this blog, I argued that universities and colleges have been very slow to introduce basic animation skills into their curricula. In this posting, I argue that the same is true for ...
Blog I always get mixed message from the IT industry about skills availability. One side says there is a skills shortage while another says there is not. Some say there are good opportunities in Computer Science and some say there are not. The offshoring of IT work is always seen as a major hindera...
Blog Breaking the petaflop barrier, a feat that seemed astronomical just two years ago, won't just allow faster computations. These computers will enable entirely new types of science that couldn't have been done before. Betsy Mason, Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science The ...
Blog Professor Dame Wendy Hall will present the 4th Karen Sprck Jones Lecture this year entitled: 'How to enjoy a career in computing.' The annual event sponsored by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and IBM honours women in computing research. Dame Wendy Hall is a professor of comput...