At Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, it has the force of a mantra. The word has dangled from 50-foot banners gracing ...
Math students may not blink at calculating probabilities, measuring the area beneath curves or evaluating matrices, yet they often find themselves at sea when first confronted with writing proofs.
In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone ...