Science fiction is much more fun to study than real science.
"With clear illustrations, practical experiments, and well-paced text, it makes an interest in science look like fun, " she said.
It inspired the kids that science can be fun and learning more about it can be quite a pleasurable experience.
And only 55% said they generally had fun when learning science - again below the OECD average.
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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Pamela Fox, a 22-year-old computer science grad student who builds Amazon mashups for fun, recently did a mashup of maps and corporate data for Chevron as a class project--crunching what would be a weeks-long project into one hour of mashing.
"The fun of the challenge from the science perspective is that you do have farmers and biologists and entomologists, and biochemists and chemical engineers, and process engineers and business people and investors all working to solve this, and it ranges anywhere from a political issue to a technical issue, " del Cardayre said.
The image of computer science needs to be one that is accessible, fun, and leads to opportunities in all fields.
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But we had fun poking around the company's CEATEC science fair nonetheless.
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On Friday Yahoo's website still hadn't corrected a page titled "Getting to know Yahoo's New CEO" in which the errant computer science degree is listed in one of the "six fun facts" about Mr. Thompson.
Introduce girls to science and math at young ages and in an environment that encourages fun and learning.
It is all good fun, yet among the anecdotes and curious facts the science content is deceptively high.
We have many computer science teachers using our platform, because it makes learning to code more fun and engaging.
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It's so important that it's got a fun side, but that it's based on good science in terms of chimp behaviour.
At the same time Siu attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to study computer science, but after a visit to Boston he found the city more fun and more stimulating, and soon transferred to Boston University.
Since we're not foolish enough to sacrifice our own expensive electronics in the name of culinary science, we caught wind of this neat trick from reader Brett, who decided to have a little fun with his not-under-warranty 'Box after the red lights of death made their dreaded appearance.
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That was very fun, by the way. (Laughter.) We're planning an annual science fair to honor the student winners of national science and technology competitions.
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