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The computational power of the puff-ball cactus
Part of Break Through Tech Chicago's series of HOW columns, which tell how women in technology got where they are today and how we can increase the presence of women in technology tomorrow — in "her own words." by Hilda Mendoza-Avila My name is Hilda Mendoza-Avila,...
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The Internet is pretty old at this point. It began more than 50 (!) years ago as a U.S. Department of Defense project, students in Break Through Tech Chicago's introductory computer science course learned. Back then, it was called ARPANET, short for Advanced Research...
Your roommate as cyber threat
We all realize we need to protect our data from hackers. Break Through Tech Chicago students learned to be aware of other possible information-stealers, too. The process is called "threat modeling," and students in the introductory computer science course CS 100 were...
That code sounds great!
Can you listen to coding on Spotify? In the introductory computer science course offered through Break Through Tech Chicago, Andrew Davis argued "yes." Davis, a computer science professor at Wellesley College, classically trained composer, and visiting guest expert in...