Computer science

Sharon Wheeler celebrates the core journalistic skills that changing technology are unlikely to render obsolete

Tributes paid to ‘one of the greatest humanists of the early 21st century’

John Gilbey assesses a sobering account of why the internet doesn’t work for radicals

New centre vows to tackle ‘loss of trust’ driven by technological change

Book of the week: Christopher Phelps assesses a bold but flawed history of one of America’s great corporations

Artificial intelligence may be threatening employment but it could also be key to helping humans find alternative jobs, argues Shigeru Miyagawa 

Former chief defence scientist of Australia says universities may be forced to bar Chinese nationals from conducting research in sensitive areas

Btihaj Ajana on a critical overview of a movement that promises freedom yet makes even the simplest of tasks more labour-intensive

William Huber is unimpressed by an attempt to determine the psychological impact of gaming

This account of the contemporary digital university outlines opportunities to construct a more progressive learning environment and culture, says Simon Horrocks

In the online era, authors are expected to do their own publicity and readers have much more power, finds Andrew Blake

For those reliant on EU funding, seeking appointments at continental universities is the only sensible course, says Peter Coveney

Cross-national study compared final-year undergraduates in US, India, China and Russia

Business and academia accuse each other of ‘more aggressive’ assertion of intellectual property rights

Evidence from Canada highlights the scale of the challenge in preparing 21st-century workers and citizens, say Ross Finnie, Arthur Sweetman and Richard Mueller 

Parallels tell us little about the complexities of scientific innovation, writes Emma Gee

Our personal environment faces profound changes as a consequence of technology, says John Gilbey

It’s not too soon to consider the rights of machines, and this timely book offers a clear way to do just that, says Kate Devlin

Pledges of huge investments in higher education to secure the tech giant’s second headquarters could strain academic autonomy, says Michelle Dimino

Higher education institutions who are developing AI have a responsibility to ensure that it is not biased against developing nations, conference hears

Figures in Elsevier report on AI research landscape are ‘a call to action’

The University of Oxford now leads Times Higher Education’s two technology-focused subject rankings

Tributes paid to pioneering authority on human-computer interaction

If access to European research funding is to be maintained, more UK research universities need to forge formal links with EU institutions, says Peter Coveney

Joint venture will be second undergraduate collaboration between universities in China and Ireland

$350 million gift from investor Stephen Schwarzman aims to deeply integrate computer science knowledge with expertise in ethics and other realms of social science

A grand tour of digital processes culminates with cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular

The computer scientist on the future of online education, seeing early demonstrations of Google, and why he wished he had cloned himself

Driverless cars are limited in their understanding and inherit their coders’ biases, warns John Gilbey

Stampede to study AI has led to warnings that the number of lecturers cannot keep up with demand

National strategies also debate merits of basic versus applied research in rapidly expanding field

Data from THE’s World University Rankings underscore that many more women are studying some science subjects in the Mena region, but does this translate into employment?

Government pledges huge windfall for research facilities, but much of it will not be seen until the next decade

Boycott comes as Springer Nature reveals to investors how it uses brand and impact factor to charge academics ‘premium’ prices

Imperial College London academic Abbas Edalat has been detained on security charges since mid-April 

The Cambridge Analytica controversy flags up the ethical perils of research with Big Data – especially when it has commercial potential, says John Holmwood 

Robotics experts cancel boycott after KAIST denies developing autonomous weapons

Leading academics fear research at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology could be used to develop autonomous armaments

New courses from University of London and Imperial College London include platform’s first bachelor’s programme

The quantum computing pioneer and Australian of the Year talks about growing up in south-east London, creating the new field of atomic electronics and how to get more women into science

But growth in those completing postgraduate research degrees in physics appears have stalled, according to latest Hesa data

Asian universities in particular are embracing a technological future, but they should bear in mind the words of two wise Americans, says Alice Gast

John Gilbey on a welcome guide to the thorny legal and ethical issues of a new technological era 

University of Paris-Saclay will incorporate ethical considerations into research on emerging technologies 

Academic whose research interests were shaped by an African childhood remembered

Manolis Mavrikis enjoys a reasoned appeal to universities to meet the teaching challenges posed by AI

In-depth examination of researchers’ career paths suggests few adhere to long-held stereotype that the young publish more

Former Stanford provost, leader in fields of fundraising and international exchanges, remembered

Universities in the US lead Times Higher Education’s rankings for engineering and technology and computer science; Peking and NUS are Asia’s top performers

Father of ‘fuzzy logic’ remembered

John Gilbey praises an entertaining text that draws on popular culture to explain the essentials of computer science to the general reader

Times Higher Education will publish expanded league tables for 11 different subject areas

David Malan had encouraged students to watch video recordings of lectures

Book of the week: Apps are taking us places, fast – but do we always want to go? John Gilbey considers the value of rapidly changing tech

University of Glasgow research indicates students can improve communication and thinking ability by playing computer games

Elsevier data show that China produces vast quantities of papers in field but lags on quality

Joint honours approach attracts more women and ethnic minorities to field, says Northeastern dean

Book of the week: sidelining its female workforce cost the UK primacy in a nascent IT industry, says John Gilbey

Facebook pioneer discusses improving diversity in tech industry and universities