Like many kids of my generation growing up in India, I was an avid reader of Enid Blyton’s novels. Many of her books were written as a series (“The Famous Five,” “The Secret Seven” and “Five ...

Abstraction close abstractionThe process of extracting or withdrawing something. is the process of filtering out - essentially ignoring - the characteristics of problems that are not needed in order ...

Boost student engagement through the core concepts of computational thinking: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithmic thinking. In this session, you’ll learn how to integrate ...

I’m part of the post-Watergate generation of journalism school graduates, and I’m watching my peers struggle to master digital tools in an effort to stay relevant to an industry that is shifting under ...

Today we’re obsessed with data. Experts in every industry are finding ingenious ways to measure and depict millions of data points every day. But data is virtually worthless unless someone can look at ...

14 April 2011 DOHA, QATAR - "Thinking like a computer scientist means more than being able to program a computer," said Jeannette M. Wing, Ph.D., the President's Professor of Computer Science and Head ...

Version 1: Given the following statement: "There are six times as many students as professors at this university." Write an equation that represents the above statement. Use S for the number of ...

GIS map overlaid with U.S. population density in 1930 for a project at Lehigh University. Purple dots indicate correspondence issued by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Computational thinking is one of the ...

Decomposition close decompositionBreaking down a complex problem into smaller, more manageable sub-problems. involves breaking down a complex problem or system into smaller parts that are more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amir is Founder of AI unicorn Avathon & Boeing/SC JV, SkyGrid. Recently, a friend asked me a question that's been floating around ...