President Obama earlier this year announced a new initiative, “Computer Science for All,” to empower a generation of American students with the computing skills they need to thrive in a digital ...

A group of MIT boffins have worked out that computer programming does not use the same part of the brain associated with language or writing or solving maths problems. The team of neuroscientists ...

The binary or base 2 system works in the same way. But as there are only 2 possible digits to work with, 1 and 0, the multipliers in the columns have to be 2 times higher than the ones on the right.

How does a computer represent letters? In this episode of Maths Matters Julie Gould and Phil Smyth look into the different codes used to translate binary into letters. PLUS, Julie goes undercover ...

Binary is a number system that only uses two digits: 1 and 0. All information that is processed by a computer is in the form of a sequence of 1s and 0s. Therefore, all data that we want a computer ...

Levelling Up: Maths for Computer Science is a scheme supported by the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science to provide students from underrepresented backgrounds with online tutoring ...

Neglecting maths education in UK schools will lead to a substantial decline in skills in the IT sector, according to Scott Fletcher, founder and chairman of ANS Group. Scott Fletcher responded to ...