Tag: coding

  • Nation & World

    Coding for a cause

    Professor Jelani Nelson develops new algorithms to make computer systems work more efficiently, but also takes his educational efforts beyond Harvard’s walls. He founded AddisCoder, a program that teaches students in Ethiopia how to code.

    8 minutes
    Jelani Nelson sitting in front of a laptop
  • Nation & World

    Root, the code-teaching robot

    A Wyss Institute robot named Root is designed to teach computer coding to anyone from a 5-year-old to an intermediate programmer.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Where ideas trump devices

    At the annual CS50 Fair, students of history, literature, music, and more create tools to share knowledge across fields.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    When engineering meets art

    Music blared, LEDs blinked, and jaws dropped Tuesday at the SEAS Design and Project Fair, a celebration of creative problem-solving by students at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences…

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Closing the gender gap in computer science

    Young women studying computer science were introduced to a group of potential role models as part of a weekend conference at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The event, organized by Harvard Women in Computer Science, drew some of the most successful women in the field.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Competition that computes

    It might appear that evacuating a major city following a natural disaster and playing foosball have little, if anything, in common. For students participating in the IACS Computational Challenge, however, both are problems that can be tackled with some clever coding.

    3 minutes