Another man, age 53, decided to change careers and go back to a local college to study computer science.
Women accounted for 12 percent of U.S. college graduates in computer science last year, according to the Computing Research Association.
"Computing now penetrates into just about every line of business and academic discipline, " said Zhigang Xiang, chair of Queens College's Computer Science Department.
Rahim Kanani: In search of discovering my own passions, I switched majors twice in college: from computer science to business, and from business to philosophy.
Mark Keane, Chair of Computer Science in University College Dublin, and Aaron Gerow, an MSc candidate in computer science, used a computer model to plot distributions of words from financial articles published between 2006 and 2010.
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Perhaps he thought serving on a bunch of outside tech boards would distract people from noticing that Stonehill College never offered a computer science degree when he attended.
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When Microsoft recognized a booming need for IT support to service the networks it powered, it stepped up its giving to US community college programs that offered computer technology degrees.
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Programming was a late love for Penny Herscher, who became interested in computer science during college.
The Flint Journal reported this week that a Michigan school district recently had to block access to college basketball games over its computer network.
For many years, Elsheimer, who studied computer science in college, collected these films in his spare time while he worked a variety of jobs.
In the summer before college, he wrote a computer program that prompted webcams to snap photographs, at intervals, and upload them to a Web site.
S. in Engineering and Computer Science from Harvard College and an MBA from M.
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Not that building a tablet computer to attack the college textbook business is a terrible idea.
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He wanted to move on to college to study applied math and computer science.
Fourth, sell diamond rings to college students and fifth, send computer data over copper electric wires.
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The cross-species interactions were brought about by computer scientists at University College London (UCL) and the University of Barcelona.
Think of Gates et al, leaving college to start-up a computer business.
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Sankar was one of three women in her computer science class in college in India and had few close friends to ask for help.
Not to mention that she managed to get through four years of college not only without her own computer but without even an email address.
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The rules have changed this year for withdrawing money from 529 college savings plan to buy a computer (or Apple iPad), but not from Coverdell education savings accounts.
Code.org claims that computer-programming jobs are growing at twice the U.S. national average while less than 2.4% of college students graduate with degrees in computer science -- less than 10 years ago.
Young engineer Nolan Bushnell sat down in the mid-1970s, looked at the falling prices of memory chips, extrapolated where they would be in a couple years and precisely predicted when computer games played on college computers would be cheap enough to operate in bars.
Thompson had claimed he held both accounting and computer science degrees from Stonehill College near Boston.
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Jack Dowie, emeritus professor at University College London, who has developed a computer programme to help decision making believes it is not adequate for doctors to tell patients about their intuitive diagnosis.
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One of my closest friends has a son who studied both computer science and Japanese in college and also spent two summers in Tokyo, first taking language classes and then working as an intern at a technology company.
Our mental image of the high-tech entrepreneur is still that of a young man, in jeans, t-shirt (or signature turtleneck), and hoodie, tinkering in his garage to build the first Apple computer, or putting his college social networks online.
For this reason, Mr. Mongeluzo, who started Pro Computer Service after graduating from college in 2000, says he doesn't expect his firm's future premiums to increase as much as they have in the past, an average of roughly 20% a year.
He takes computer animation classes at the local college, sings in the church choir and dives at the community pool.
He is working through a computer systems program at local community college and says that his online classes at P2P University compare well to his in-person courses.
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