A CIS major covers many disciplines and applications, and uses the computer as a powerful problem-solving machine.

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

At UT Computer Science, undergraduate students receive a rigorous educational experience, with options to pursue more than 50 courses that span the full spectrum of topics in modern computer science.

Using a machine learning technique called deep learning, computing systems now rival humans at many tasks, including image and speech recognition. “This relies on giving a computer large amounts of ...