While focusing on liberal arts is definitely important to teach our children, John Oliver's uncovering of Americans ill-informed comprehension of the Internet proves we need to place computer science at the same core level as math, science, history and reading.
The rational number 2n and the irrational number π— a transcendental number, for example, have very special places in computer science and in mathematics, respectively.
At Stanford, we recently placed three computer science courses online, using a similar format.
There needs to be more emphasis placed on computer science and electrical engineering in schools that attract African Americans.
There was still hope for young people with lower grade passes, as Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge said it had places on a computer science course for candidates with a point score of 150 (the equivalent of two Ds and an E).
Traditionally, forensics research has been carried out in the chemistry, biology, and materials science departments of universities, but today forensics research also occurs in less obvious places like engineering, computer science, and psychology departments, where work is done on topics as diverse as gun detection and cryptography.
Surrey-based student Mehreen Rana, who obtained a distinction in her Level Three BTEC in IT and has a place to study computer science at King's College, London, said: "I hope more girls will follow in my footsteps and realise studying a Stem-related subject at school, college and university could be right for them too".
Indeed, generalized quantifiers turn up in various places in the part of computer science that studies computational complexity.
Presumably there will be high and predictable correlations between places like Stanford and computer science and working at Google, Apple or another major Silicon Valley firm.
ICT is out; in its place is a rigorous computer science curriculum.
