Tag: CS 50

  • 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

    For a day, geek is chic

    Hundreds of students — hackers and newcomers alike — showed off their programming chops at Monday’s CS50 Fair, a raucous exhibit of mobile apps, websites, and other projects created for Harvard’s wildly popular computer science class.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    UC Berkeley joins edX

    EdX, the online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and launched in May, announced today the addition of the University of California, Berkeley, to its platform.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Nurturing the seeds of innovation

    The bond between Harvard and Silicon Valley is a close one. The region is home to a powerful network of alumni willing to offer mentorship to students and recent graduates who are dreaming big. Taking advantage of that network, SEAS and HBS recently came together to organize the trip to Palo Alto.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Creative pursuits

    Projects on display at the CS 50 Fair ranged from a tool that limits procrastination, to a website that displays longitudinal market capitalization data, to an application that helps with music composition.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s startup upstart

    Gordon Jones, director of the new Harvard Innovation Lab, has ideas on how to foster an entrepreneurial mentality at the country’s oldest university.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Zuckerberg ‘friends’ Harvard during visit

    Mark Zuckerberg returned to campus Nov. 7 to recruit computer science students for jobs and internships at Facebook, the popular social networking site that he created when he was a Harvard undergraduate.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tracking your friends and idols

    Two Harvard undergraduates have developed a website called Newsle that tracks news of Facebook and Linked In contacts.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Don’t just sit there

    The first of a series of campuswide dialogues on teaching and learning called “Conversations@FAS: Redefining Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century,” featured A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus; Christopher Winship, the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology; and David Malan, lecturer on computer science.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Innovate, create

    From oddities like breathable chocolate to history-making devices with profound societal effects, like the heart pacemaker, Harvard’s combination of questing minds, restless spirits, and intellectual seekers fosters creativity and innovation that’s finding an outlet in new inventions and companies.

    12 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Like computer science, only cooler

    More than 500 students in the introductory computer science course CS 50 descended on the Northwest Science Building for a music-thumping, popcorn-eating fair where students showed off their projects.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Web wizardry

    Harvard lecturer David Malan’s introductory computer-programming class spawns an array of imaginative new applications, reflected in the annual CS 50 Fair.

    10 minutes