Computer science was once a 'golden ticket' — now it's seeing the biggest enrollment drop of any major in 6 years. What students are choosing instead

Nobel Prize–winning economist Simon Johnson said AI has "substantially wiped out" coding as a reliable source of opportunity.

A quantum computing deadline looms. It threatens to kick off the biggest cybersecurity crisis ever

The day when a quantum computer can crack commonly used forms of encryption is drawing closer. The world isn’t prepared, ...

Dot-com-era computer stocks are one of the hottest areas of the market again

Cisco's sizzling rally after earnings is the latest example of a dot-com era computer stock being lifted to fresh highs on a ...
The Next Web

The most-cited computer scientist alive says AI could make humanity extinct within a decade

The Turing Award winner launched nonprofit LawZero with $30M to build safe-by-design AI. He says the industry's race toward agentic systems is turning theoretical risks into practical ones.
Chicago Sun-Times

UIC opens state-of-the-art computer science center

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After more than 50 years, a WPI student finally walks the commencement stage

Kerry Lynn is graduating 50 years after when he was first supposed to from WPI. He got his degree in computer science when AI ...

AI advances are breaking into the physical world – and robots will soon learn how to do your washing and ironing

A tech VC said, physical AI is "the challenge of figuring out how to reinvent the physical world. It's a big challenge." In ...
Hackaday

Supercon 2023: Restoring The Apollo Guidance Computer

Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic ...