{"id":30787,"date":"2025-06-30T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30787"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:24:44","slug":"how-do-you-teach-computer-science-in-the-a-i-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30787","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carnegie Mellon University has a well-earned reputation as one of the nation\u2019s top schools for computer science. Its graduates go on to work at big tech companies, start-ups and research labs worldwide.<\/p>\n

Still, for all its past success, the department\u2019s faculty is planning a retreat this summer to rethink what the school should be teaching to adapt to the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

The technology has \u201creally shaken computer science education,\u201d said Thomas Cortina, a professor and an associate dean for the university\u2019s undergraduate programs.<\/p>\n

Computer science, more than any other field of study, is being challenged by generative A.I.<\/p>\n

The A.I. technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT, which can write essays and answer questions with humanlike fluency, is making inroads across academia<\/a>. But A.I. is coming fastest and most forcefully to computer science, which emphasizes writing code<\/a>, the language of computers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Big tech companies and start-ups have introduced A.I. assistants that can generate code and are rapidly becoming more capable. And in January, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, predicted that A.I. technology would effectively match the performance of a midlevel software engineer sometime this year.<\/p>\n

Computer science programs at universities across the country are now scrambling to understand the implications of the technological transformation, grappling with what to keep teaching in the A.I. era. Ideas range from less emphasis on mastering programming languages to focusing on hybrid courses designed to inject computing into every profession, as educators ponder what the tech jobs of the future will look like in an A.I. economy.<\/p>\n

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Carnegie Mellon University has a well-earned reputation as one of the nation\u2019s top schools for computer science. Its graduates go on to work at big tech companies, start-ups and research labs worldwide.Still, for all its past success, the department\u2019s faculty is planning a retreat this summer to rethink what the school should be teaching to adapt to the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence.The technology has \u201creally shaken computer science education,\u201d said Thomas Cortina, a professor and an associate dean for the university\u2019s undergraduate programs.Computer science, more than any other field of study, is being challenged by generative A.I.The A.I. technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT, which can write essays and answer questions with humanlike fluency, is making inroads across academia. But A.I. is coming fastest and most forcefully to computer science, which emphasizes writing code, the language of computers.Big tech companies and start-ups have introduced A.I. assistants that can generate code and are rapidly becoming more capable. And in January, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, predicted that A.I. technology would effectively match the performance of a midlevel software engineer sometime this year.Computer science programs at universities across the country are now scrambling to understand the implications of the technological transformation, grappling with what to keep teaching in the A.I. era. Ideas range from less emphasis on mastering programming languages to focusing on hybrid courses designed to inject computing into every profession, as educators ponder what the tech jobs of the future will look like in an A.I. economy.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30789,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30790,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30787\/revisions\/30790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}