This article was originally published on The Conversation. Often when I speak with students who are majoring in computer sciences, many of them tell me that they have never taken a computer science course until college. This is especially true… Read More
UF engineering professor Kristy Boyer’s latest NSF project uses intelligent virtual agents to study and foster collaboration skills in elementary school students. Collaboration is a critical skill needed in many fields, but particularly in computer science, where many people often… Read More
UF-TYPE, a student-run organization at the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has been awarded funding from Google’s igniteCS. UF-TYPE (Teaching Youth Programming Essentials) is an outreach program of UF’s Women in Computer Science and Engineering (WiCSE).… Read More
Julia Woodward was selected as a finalist for the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Woodward was one of eight finalists from Ph.D. institutions, and the only students from the University of Florida to receive the honor for 2017.… Read More
Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D.,professor, and Daisy Zhe Wang, Ph.D., assistant professor, have been named affiliate faculty members of the College of Medicine’s Institute for Child Health Policy. The institute focuses on disparities in health and health care outcomes for minority and… Read More