“Don’t just play on your phone, program it,’’ said President Obama in a new promotional video aimed to get students to spend an hour writing computer code. A non-profit group called code.org enlisted ...

New research might widen access to learning computer programming. Source: skynesher/iStock It is routinely assumed that to be a computer programmer—to write code, in other words—you need to be good at ...

Erica Orthmann: "Gender stereotyping -- namely, the notion that math is for boys -- starts as early as second grade."(woodleywonderworks/flickr) I grew up on the cusp between Generations X and Y, at a ...

Abraham Nemeth, a blind mathematician and college professor who developed a widely used Braille system that made it easier for other blind people to become proficient in mathematics and science, died ...