The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 11:00 am (EST) by Owen Astrachan and Amy Briggs titled AP Computer Science Principles.  Astrachan is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science and Professor of the Practice at Duke University where he has taught in four decades and two millennia. In addition to teaching computer science, he builds curricula and approaches to teaching intended for broad adoption and adaptation.  Briggs is Professor of Computer Science at Middlebury College in Vermont where she teaches undergraduate courses in introductory computer science, data structures, theory of computation, discrete […]

Computing is at the heart of one up-and-coming cultural trend – wearable technology. This emerging market is enabled by advances in computing, and it’s positioned to become a multi-billion dollar market in the near future. A report from BBC Research, Wearable Computing: Technologies, Applications, and Global Markets, projects the global market for wearable computing devices to grow to $30.2 billion by 2018. The consumer market is the fastest moving segment. Wearable computing encompasses everything from smart watches, activity monitors, to devices in clothing and accessories. The smart watch product category is projected to account for the largest single consumer market, generating more than $12.5 billion in global annual revenues in 2018. From […]