"We were compelled to do it because we were between a rock and a hard place, " explained Lutfullah Kamran, a 24-year-old computer-science graduate who is commander of the new Andar ALP.
Computer science is the third highest-paying bachelor degree, right behind computer engineering and chemical engineering.
Now what was once was a fun computer-science experiment in natural language processing is becoming a real business for IBM and Wellpoint, which is the exclusive reseller of the technology for now.
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But one genome pioneer is taking the opposite approach: imitating the open-source movement of computer science, which argues that technology works best when it is given away for free so that everyone can collaborate on it.
We visited one school in Cambridge where computer science is taught, albeit at A-level.
Computer science is going to become part of the English Baccalaureate - one of the measures used in school league tables in England.
The Microsoft chairman says there is a deficit of Americans with computer-science degrees, and he wants the government to make it easier for Microsoft to hire foreign-born workers.
With two degrees from Stanford, including a master's degree in computer science, and a successful career in a male-dominated industry, Mayer is often held up as a woman to emulate.
Matt Blaze, a privacy-focused professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania says the inattention is typical of the industry.
He is a consulting professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association of Computing Machinery.
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