Computer Education
You may have noticed a few things this week, starting with the word ‘computer science’.Google has started using the word to describe its search engine.But what is computer science?It’s a science that deals with how information is processed and created, and how it is stored.The word is derived from the Greek words for ‘computer’ and […]
Computer science has a very specific meaning to me.I do not think that the term computer science has been around as long as I can remember.I think the word computer comes from the English word “computer” and is the equivalent of the Latin word “science”.When I was a child, computers were my only means of […]
When computers and robots begin to interact with each other, it’s inevitable that a lot of human behaviour will shift to their side.But in the past few decades, researchers have begun to wonder how much of this human behaviour actually depends on the computer-driven nature of our interactions with them.Computer scientists are using AI to […]
The word ‘scaling’ is used for the difference between what computers are capable of and what their power and resources are.For example, a computer might have a certain speed or speed of operation, but not have the ability to do any other computations at all.The computer is a power-hungry machine that can do whatever it […]
On Friday, a Clemson University computer science student named James Sager posted an image to Twitter that has been viewed more than 10,000 times since Friday afternoon.It shows a computer and a small tablet, and the message says “Computer Science meaning.”The computer, it seems, is a version of the word “computron,” which means “computers.”The tablet […]
