Other schools, like Carnegie Mellon, do a breakdown of salaries for various departments including computer science and technology.
The Initiative, a 10-year plan to provide greater work-related flexibility to women and men in research careers, is run by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which is the leading source of Federal grants for many fields that are crucial to US technology development and job creation, including computer science, mathematics, and the social sciences.
Up to 2, 500 students at a time are expected to enroll in masters and doctoral programs with a focus in areas including engineering and computer science.
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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.
As software eats the world, every sort of engineering (and indeed, every sort of profession organized along lines suggested by the physical sciences, including fields like medicine) is becoming effectively a branch of computer science.
In October, a panel of technology experts, including representatives of Google and Microsoft, called for the inclusion of computer science in the English Baccalaureate.
Carnegie Mellon graduate Michelle Burroughs, 21, a computer-science major, fielded offers from six companies, including Amazon.com Inc.
The native of India earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of Southern California and worked for various startups, including one acquired by Cisco Systems Inc.
Research published in New Scientist magazine last year by Leysia Palen, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Colorado, revealed that social networking sites, including Twitter, were more effective than government emergency services when it came to distributing information during emergencies such as the Virginia Tech shooting of April 2007.
After leaving computer science, he spent years apprenticing to some of the city's top talent, including Rick Bayless.
In the last year, MOOCs have been growing fast, with several start-ups, including Udacity, founded by Sebastian Thrun, a German-born Google vice president and part-time Stanford computer science professor, edX, a collaboration between Harvard and M.
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