computer science

NOUN

the study of computers

Synonyms

STRONGEST

artificial intelligence computer technology data processing information technology robotics

WEAK

computer-aided learning computer-aided testing cybernetics information retrieval natural language processing neural networks operating systems programming programming languages simulation systems analysis

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computer science

Clark’s Gen X parents earned computer science degrees in the 1990s and secured stable jobs with clear trajectories for career growth straight out of college.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Walters of Natchez, Miss., who left a career in computer science to pursue a more lucrative calling—manufacturing and installing seamless gutters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Hugging Face grew out of a 2011 meeting between Clement Delangue, a serial entrepreneur since his teens, and Julien Chaumond, a graduate of France's elite Polytechnique engineering school with a computer science degree from Stanford.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Neither Stanford nor UC Berkeley, the state’s two biggest computer science powers, has created an undergraduate AI degree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

“And I’m going to have a talk with the organizers about conflicts of interest. If your parents donated the new computer science wing?”

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon