Being among the first to pick up on Internet news and gossip and rapidly detecting contamination anywhere in a water supply system are similar problems, at least from a computer scientist's point of ...

In 1965, the Library of Congress got its first computer—so big that it had to be delivered one piece at a time. Back then, it most likely would have been women helping input data into a ...

President Obama wants computer science taught as often as reading, writing and arithmetic in American schools. “In the new economy, computer science isn’t an optional skill — it’s a basic skill, right ...

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Heather VanMouwerik is a PhD candidate in Russian History at the University of California, Riverside and the Congressman George Brown Graduate Intern for the Special Collections at Rivera Library.

Computers have gone from being a novelty to an essential part of life in the span of a few short decades. It’s no wonder so many students now pursue an education in the field. “Computer science ...