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Two Computer Scientists to Receive Nsf's Alan T. Waterman Award
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Two Computer Scientists to Receive Nsf's Alan T. Waterman Award

Two computer scientists, Robert Wood of Harvard University and Scott Aaronson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have been named by the National Science...

DARPA Director Bolts Pentagon For Google
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DARPA Director Bolts Pentagon For Google

Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon's premiere research shop to take a job with Google.

Khan Academy: The Future of Education?
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Khan Academy: The Future of Education?

Sal Khan is a math, science, and history teacher to millions of students, yet none have ever seen his face.

Hail to the Geeks
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Hail to the Geeks

Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...

The Helper
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The Helper

MIT senior Jacob Wamala applies his engineering skills and his desire to serve to help improve the lives of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.

Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World
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Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World

Stanford University is introducing five free online classes in March as the next step in a university initiative to use new technologies to improve education....

Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge
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Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge

The Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge, sponsored by DARPA and NASA, and run by the MIT Space Systems Laboratory, TopCoder, and Aurora Flight Sciences...

Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says
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Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says

Cloud computing technologies will help create nearly 14 million technology-related jobs worldwide by 2015, resulting in $1.1 trillion in revenue annually, according...

What Geography Can Teach ­S About Basketball
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What Geography Can Teach ­S About Basketball

The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, created in 2006, has become something like Bonnaroo for sports nerds. And if there was a breakout star at this year's...

Supercomputer Center Announces 2012 Internships For High School Students
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Supercomputer Center Announces 2012 Internships For High School Students

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is holding a volunteer internship program for high school students this summer to assist them in gaining experience...

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Hackers Vie For More Than $1 Million to Take Down Browsers

As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...

Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models
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Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models

There may be no better way to engage kids of all ages in learning about science than with a Lego-based DNA molecule, robot or rocket.

App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students
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App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students

An app created by a Vanderbilt graduate student converts an Android tablet computer into a powerful tool for teaching math to visually impaired students.

Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers
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Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers

Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation with NASA.

Computer Software Responds to Students' Frustration and Boredom
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Computer Software Responds to Students' Frustration and Boredom

Computer software that models and responds to students' cognitive and emotional states — including frustration and boredom — has been developed by researchers from...

Virtual Laboratories to Reach 500,000 Students
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Virtual Laboratories to Reach 500,000 Students

Aiming to provide state-of-art laboratory facilities to all science and engineering institutions, India has introduced its first virtual science and engineering...

Engineering the Next Generation of STEM
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Engineering the Next Generation of STEM

Industry participants, reacting to the so-called engineering crisis, are doing what they can to foster science, technology, engineering, and math talent and encourage...

British Companies Bypass Immigration Cap on Skilled Migrants
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British Companies Bypass Immigration Cap on Skilled Migrants

Overseas staff coming to U.K. under "intra-company transfer" scheme surged to 29,700 last year, Home Office figures show.

Campaign Calls For New Teacher-Training 'infrastructure'
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Campaign Calls For New Teacher-Training 'infrastructure'

Leading education and industry groups have signed a letter asking George Osborne to fund new computer training for teachers.

International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
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International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

Some of science's most powerful statements are not made in words. The next competition opens May 31, 2012.
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