A new joint major program at Stanford offers the liberal arts-inclined just that, integrating humanities and computer science in an experimental merger of left- and right-brained thinking.

The number of Stanford students specializing in computer science in 2012 trumps those in human biology, a long-standing favorite, 380 to 329, according to a new analysis by the university ...

Widom said it’s not “half of a [computer science] major and half of an English major.” It’s more like “90 percent of one and 90 percent of the other,” she said. Students majoring in the new joint ...

Computer science was introduced as a department at Stanford in 1965 as part of the School of Humanities and Sciences, originally offering only Ph.D.s and Masters degrees. CS 106 was first offered ...

This past fall quarter, Stanford offered an introductory computer science class to more than 200 talented high school students from around the nation. When I first received the opportunity to ...

Stanford adores computer science, clearly; and we, in turn, tend to adore it just for that reason. It's a place that fits our technology-obsessed times.