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A Personal History With Computers
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A Personal History With Computers

Carol Spradling's life changed when she saw a computer application that could do her time-consuming accounting work in seconds. She was recently named the recipient...

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The Importance of Word Choice: Terms with Multiple Meanings For Scientists and the Public

If you haven't seen the excellent post on Mountain Beltway—Words matter—you should head over there and take a look. The post brought up some interesting ideas about...

Vcu Training Simulator Tests, Evaluates School Leaders
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Vcu Training Simulator Tests, Evaluates School Leaders

Using a five-year, $5.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, researchers with "Project ALL" are developing a computer simulator that evaluates...

$9.8m Program Aims to Change How Science Is Taught
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$9.8m Program Aims to Change How Science Is Taught

A coalition of regional partners in upstate New York has received $9.8 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to expand a promising, teacher-focused...

Experimental Mathematics: Computing Power Leads to Insights
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Experimental Mathematics: Computing Power Leads to Insights

Modern computer technology has vastly expanded our ability to discover new mathematical results.

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7 Key Skills New It Grads Are Lacking

Greg Taffet is scouting for talent. Taffet, the CIO of U.S. Gas & Electric Inc. in North Miami Beach, Fla., brought on four new staffers in the past six months...

Countdown: America's No. 1 Solar Car Ready to Race the World
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Countdown: America's No. 1 Solar Car Ready to Race the World

With a cutting-edge solar car, an advanced strategy and an intrepid 16-student race crew, the University of Michigan's national champion solar car team is ready...

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Stanford Teams With City College (think Engineering School)

In the chess match to determine which university will get a chance to build a graduate school of applied sciences on public land in New York City, Stanford is...

­c Santa Cruz Grads Turn Senior Project Into Game Design Company
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­c Santa Cruz Grads Turn Senior Project Into Game Design Company

A new iPad game called Syz: EG, now available from Apple's App Store, showcases the professional quality of the work done by UC Santa Cruz students in the school's...

WPI's Robotics Engineering Program Receives Accreditation
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WPI's Robotics Engineering Program Receives Accreditation

Four years after the launching a robotics engineering program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute is the only university in the United States with bachelor's, master's...

The Next Generation of Technology
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The Next Generation of Technology

Selecting Technology Review's yearly list of 35 innovators under the age of 35 is a difficult but rewarding process. We search for candidates around the world...

Cmu's Brumley Receives Prestigious Pecase Award For Cybersecurity Research
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Cmu's Brumley Receives Prestigious Pecase Award For Cybersecurity Research

Carnegie Mellon University's David Brumley has won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government...

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The ­niversity of Wherever

For more than a decade educators have been expecting the Internet to transform that bastion of tradition and authority, the university. Digital utopians have...

MentorNet Opens Its Doors to Students from All Campuses
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MentorNet Opens Its Doors to Students from All Campuses

To encourage more students to work with mentors during their academic careers, MentorNet is making it easier for any student with an .EDU email address to find...

'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians
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'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians

The proliferation of ways to measure things—point-of-service terminals, Web analytics, geographic and temporal records, even semantic information—means businesses...

Wpi Launches Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Programs
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Wpi Launches Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Programs

Beginning with the new academic year, Worcester Polytechnic Institute is launching  interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate degree programs  in bioinformatics...

A Campus Champion For Women in Computer Science
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A Campus Champion For Women in Computer Science

Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe has helped increase the percentage of female computer science majors at the college to 42 percent, compared to the national...

Obama Jobs Plan: How IT Workers Will Benefit
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Obama Jobs Plan: How IT Workers Will Benefit

In his speech to Congress introducing the American Jobs Act, President Obama discussed the need for additional legislation that, if passed, would have a direct...

­w Professor Shwetak Patel Wins Macarthur Foundation 'genius' Award
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­w Professor Shwetak Patel Wins Macarthur Foundation 'genius' Award

 Shwetak Patel, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, has been named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow...

Scholarship Program Addresses Science and Math Teacher Shortages
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Scholarship Program Addresses Science and Math Teacher Shortages

The Ithaca College Robert Noyce Scholarship Program will prepare 18 undergraduates for careers teaching physics and math in high-need school districts.
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