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What do employers want from Computer Science students and how good are Universities in producing graduates with what employers need? In episode 3 of our community podcast, we spoke to Rosanne English at the University of Strathclyde about her paper co-authored with Alan Hayes Towards Integrated Graduate Skills for UK Computing Science Students published at ukicer.com.
It’s all very well getting an AI to write your code for you but neither writing code or reading code are the same as understanding code. So what is going on in novices brains when they learn to actually understand the code they are reading and writing?
Repurposed Appalachia Series Tucked in the quiet valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the town of Andrews, North Carolina, offers more than just a scenic rail bike ride—it offers a journey through history. Andrews Valley Rail Tours was launched during the town’s Oktoberfest festival in the fall of 2022, after the Andrews Chamber of Commerce partnered with Judy Fitzpatrick to develop this concept in 2021-2022.
Computing is widely taught in schools in the UK and Ireland, but how does the subject vary across primary and secondary education in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland? In episode 1 of our community podcast, we spoke to Sue Sentance, at the University of Cambridge about her paper Computing in School in the UK &
On April 30 2025, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya released a statement accelerating the timeline […]
In the previous post I mooted the possibility that a high energy form of the dimer of nitric oxide 1 might nonetheless be able to be detected using suitable traps (such as hydrogenation or cycloaddition). However, an interesting alternative is that this species could be trapped by nitric oxide itself.
The rise of Large Language Models in academic writing. Postdoctoral researcher Dr Verena Haage was reviewing a manuscript for a reputable neuroscience journal when she began to notice unusual inconsistencies. Haage noticed that some figures had strange proportions, or illogical experimental timepoints, and that figures were arranged in a senseless order.
What the discovery of a new mammoth lineage in Mexico teaches us about the shifting paradigms of life
Climate change, nuclear winter, and stratospheric aerosol injections