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The number of students choosing to study computer science beyond A-level has increased in 2020, according to BCS. Looking into figures from university admissions organisation UCAS, BCS found the ...

Thankfully, 2020 is over, and we can look forward to a healthier, safer, and more normal 2021. However, it was a big year for technology and cybersecurity with massive cyberattacks, worldwide outages, ...

Although U.S. schools have made progress with computer science education, new research shows that fewer than half of schools are teaching computer science. 2020 State of Computer Science Education: ...

Much of the 2020 datacentre news cycle has been dominated by the colocation and hyperscale operators’ efforts to rapidly adapt to the unprecedented levels of demand for cloud services across the world ...

For mathematicians and computer scientists, 2020 was full of discipline-spanning discoveries and celebrations of creativity. Several long-standing problems yielded to sustained collaboration, ...

Back in the 1920s, quantum mechanics, which is the theory that underpins everything from how atoms behave to how quantum computers work, was well on the way to gaining mainstream acceptance. But one ...

Four years ago, high schools across America launched an advanced placement course introducing students to the principles of computer science in an effort geared in part toward bringing more female, ...