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Byod: Embracing Technology in K-12 Schools
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Byod: Embracing Technology in K-12 Schools

A growing number of schools are joining the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement to better integrate students' smartphones, tablets, and laptops into their classrooms...

Executives & Academics Partner to Advance STEM Education & Careers
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Executives & Academics Partner to Advance STEM Education & Careers

The Business-Higher Education Forum, a network of executives and college presidents, is focusing on programs to promote deeper learning and science, technology,...

The True State of Artificial Intelligence
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The True State of Artificial Intelligence

Kevin Korb, from Monash University's Clayton School of Information Technology, will be discussing what stage artificial intelligence has reached in an upcoming...

Online Courses Put Pressure on Third-World ­niversities
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Online Courses Put Pressure on Third-World ­niversities

How a teacher in El Salvador became an advocate of massive open online courses, and why hardly anyone listens to him yet.

How Star Wars Tech Changed Silicon Valley
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How Star Wars Tech Changed Silicon Valley

When Oren Jacob was a teenager, he hung up Star Wars posters on his bedroom wall. In his early 20s at a college dorm at Berkeley, he replaced them with a smallPixar...

STEM Pathways
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STEM Pathways

Many universities are reaching out to community colleges to set up programs that encourage science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.

Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race
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Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race

Registration is open for the 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, which challenges high school, college, and university students around the world to build and...

Study Reveals Declining Influence of High Impact Factor Journals
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Study Reveals Declining Influence of High Impact Factor Journals

The most prestigious peer-reviewed journals in the world have less and less influence amongst scientists, according to a paper co-authored by Vincent Larivière,...

A Reboot in Recruiting Women Into Computer Science
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A Reboot in Recruiting Women Into Computer Science

U.S. government agencies, universities, and technology companies have contributed tens of millions of dollars to increase the number of female computer scientists...

5 Most Surprising Things Heard at Harvard's Cyberposium
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5 Most Surprising Things Heard at Harvard's Cyberposium

There was the usual talk about the excitement of the startup universe and the thrill of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School's 18th annual Cyberposium on...

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The 10 Silicon Valley Companies You Wish You Worked for (or Started)

The history of Silicon Valley is the history of digital technology. To become a part of that history, do you go to work for one of the giants—Apple, Google, Intel...

One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education
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One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education

The headquarters of what has rapidly become the largest school in the world, at 10 million students strong, is stuffed into a few large communal rooms in a decaying...

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The 10 San Francisco Tech Companies You Wish You Worked For

As a veteran Silicon Valley investor on the faculty of Stanford business school, Andy Rachleff spends much of his time counseling young tech workers on how to manage...

5 Cool Things at MIT Media Lab
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5 Cool Things at MIT Media Lab

You probably expect all the latest and greatest high-tech gear to be out in force at the MIT Media Lab innovation complex. And you’d be right. Holograms? Check....

In the Future, Who Will Need Teachers?
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In the Future, Who Will Need Teachers?

Guitar teacher Erich Andreas works from a basement studio in Nashville, Tenn. His classroom, though, is the world itself.

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The Tech Job Market Keeps Heating ­p, But Not for Everybody

At first glance, you might think that anyone with up-to-date IT skills and a few years of work experience has it made in the shade.

Stanford Grads' Companies Combined Equals 10th Largest Economy
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Stanford Grads' Companies Combined Equals 10th Largest Economy

If companies founded by Stanford graduates formed an independent nation, it would be the 10th largest economy in the world, according to a new study by two Stanford...

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Nasa Selects Early-Stage Innovation Proposals From 10 ­niversities

NASA has selected 10 university-led proposals for study of innovative, early-stage space technologies designed to improve shielding from space radiation, spacecraft...

At Technology High School, Goal Isn't to Finish in 4 Years
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At Technology High School, Goal Isn't to Finish in 4 Years

Flakes of green paint are peeling from the third-floor windowsills.

Venture Competition Awards $50,000 to Digital Innovators
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Venture Competition Awards $50,000 to Digital Innovators

The Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business recently announced the winners of its...
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